can I fry my speakers at "0" ?
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afterburnt
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Your ears will tell you when clipping is happening. Hopefully.
afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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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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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. -
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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Do you think that this would be less of an issue with Rtia9's?
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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. afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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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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oh. well then you should practice stage diving with no crowd.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 ;^)
if you're a real fan, that is.
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Dive? I wish! I fall down pretty good though
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3 things;
1. Amplifier clipping
2. What is the sepakers max SPL specification?
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