can I fry my speakers at "0" ?

afterburnt
afterburnt Posts: 7,892
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Alice in chains sounds best at "0" sue me...
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Your ears will tell you when clipping is happening. Hopefully. :p
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,000
    Yes you can....but hey, it's your coin...spend it as you see fit. :)
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    Time for more wattage. Or a hearing check.
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Upstatemax
    Upstatemax Posts: 2,685
    As long as you're not over extending the woofers and pushing the amp to clipping, you should be fine.

    With my kids, there is a very good reason that I have my Denon set to a max volume. Loud enough to scare them if little fingers start spinning knobs, but not loud enough to hurt anything.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,960
    edited June 2015
    The big enemy of loudspeakers in terms of applied (electronic signal) power is heat. The wire in the driver voice coils, like the grind of the gristmills of the gods, is exceeding fine -- too much power dissipated through the voice coil can generate enough heat to physically distort the voice coil (causing "dragging" of the VC in the magnetic gap), or even literally burning the VC open.

    We'll leave the topic of exposure to high SPL and irreversible hearing damage for another time ;- )
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Do you think that this would be less of an issue with Rtia9's?
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    afterburnt wrote: »
    Do you think that this would be less of an issue with Rtia9's?

    No, sir. Clipping is clipping. It might be less an issue with extremely efficient horn loaded speakers though as your ears are likely to start bleeding before you hit "0" anyway. :p
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Ok I rarely need to listen to angry music lol. Most stuff is plenty loud in minus territory but Alice in chains is no fun without a little pain ;^)
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,230
    afterburnt wrote: »
    Ok I rarely need to listen to angry music lol. Most stuff is plenty loud in minus territory but Alice in chains is no fun without a little pain ;^)
    oh. well then you should practice stage diving with no crowd.
    if you're a real fan, that is.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Dive? I wish! I fall down pretty good though
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    3 things;
    1. Amplifier clipping
    2. What is the sepakers max SPL specification?
    3. Room size
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