Stop destroying your speaker's with Clipped Music .
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Stop destroying your speaker's with Clipped Music .
Check them song's your listening to for clipping / distortion .
The Program being used is Audacity 1.3 , go get it and test your music .
You may say you can tell but sometimes a pretty clear sounding song will show otherwise when looked at in a waveform .
Here is a few example's of clipped music I randomly tested . Feel free to contribute.
UGK - Choppin Blades
Sean Paul - U Aint Know
Lil Wyte - Get Wrong
Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day
Gorilla Zoe - Do It
All Different Colors , Mega (S&C)
Unclipped version of All Different Colors , Mega (S&C) , See the difference ?
You can spend thousand's and tune your setup to perfection and then use (hidden) distorted music and put your speaker's at risk .
The Program being used is Audacity 1.3 , go get it and test your music .
You may say you can tell but sometimes a pretty clear sounding song will show otherwise when looked at in a waveform .
Here is a few example's of clipped music I randomly tested . Feel free to contribute.
UGK - Choppin Blades
Sean Paul - U Aint Know
Lil Wyte - Get Wrong
Ice Cube - Today Was A Good Day
Gorilla Zoe - Do It
All Different Colors , Mega (S&C)
Unclipped version of All Different Colors , Mega (S&C) , See the difference ?
You can spend thousand's and tune your setup to perfection and then use (hidden) distorted music and put your speaker's at risk .
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Point of this thread?
I'd normally say no, but it is true that clipping into a passively crossed system can move a lot of the energy into high frequency energy and blow your tweeters, but what do you expect to gain from making such a post? All it says is "Hey look guys I can use Audacity ME SO SMART" to me.
I'd normally say no, but it is true that clipping into a passively crossed system can move a lot of the energy into high frequency energy and blow your tweeters, but what do you expect to gain from making such a post? All it says is "Hey look guys I can use Audacity ME SO SMART" to me.
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And yet it doesn't matter, because only severe clipping will damage your speakers. Or, like I said before, pretty much just your tweeters. Though not that I would be OK with my tweeters going poof. Though even that is not as much of a problem for people like me who run an active crossover
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The amplifier has a supply (or "rail") voltage, of which depends on the power output of the amplifier, what impedance it's designed for, etc. It's not 12v in a car - it's beefed up with a power supply.
When an amplifier takes the input signal and amplifies it, but does not have enough voltage to do it, it clips. The transistors are at "full open" before the signal even gets to its maximum point.
Or in recording/the digital world, it's when you have a fixed point as being the maximum voltage (0dB), meaning you can't record anything as being higher than that, but your signal actually does go higher than that. Remember recording cassette tapes, you had the level slider?
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Or in recording/the digital world, it's when you have a fixed point as being the maximum voltage (0dB), meaning you can't record anything as being higher than that, but your signal actually does go higher than that. Remember recording cassette tapes, you had the level slider?
That being said, the only CD i have ever seen that didnt have clipping (in the rap world) was Three 6 mafia Most Known Unkowns. It appeared the bass was compressed to hit real hard, but the signal was limited to something like -3dB. Still sounded just as loud most likely because the RMS signal power was no different than everything else, but the peak value was lower.