cws T/A

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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 .

dragonrage

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.

Flaring Afro

samson_420

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Wtf? ? ? ?

cws T/A

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My bad , next time I post up something I will ask for your permission.

00transamnh

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Dont listen to these retards... It makes perfect sense to me and is something i never really thought of.

Engine_HP

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looooool,

SparkyJJO

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So, you are saying before you pop that CD in you rip it to your PC first and analyze each track to make sure there isn't any clipping? I'll bet the majority of music out there has some sort of clipping going on.

Flaring Afro

there can be clipping from an equalizer. if you get a good hu then you don't have to worry. it should be able to filter it out, like winamp can.

dragonrage

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

samson_420

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Teh gay. . . . . . . . .



That is funny as hell.

TurdsOfMayhem

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I thought clipping was basically when the speaker was trying to draw more power from the amp than it can provide, and the amp 'clips' that part of the signal?

dragonrage

That's not too far off, I guess.

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?

spy2520

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x2. Digital audio has a limited range of amplitudes it can work with. Anything above that range is "clipped" and can cause distortion.

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.

spy2520

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What did you do, turn it down? No clipped peak resoration? j/k