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by userbinator 4503 days ago
DC protection = a <$0.01 capacitor. The bigger the value, the lower the frequency cutoff. A square wave passing through a high-pass filter gets cut off and the power is reduced.

IMHO everyone who is saying "this should be fixed by software" is doing it wrong. How much would it cost to write, test, debug, etc. the appropriate firmware/drivers? And it would still be subject to "warranty is void because you didn't use the right software". That cost could buy a lot of capacitors... and then if the values were chosen correctly, whatever the software does, it would not be able to put more power through the speaker than designed.