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Successfully destroying your speakers

Successfully destroying your speakers

2008-03-15 by fhserge

In the past I was quite successful in destroying some of my speakers
which is not rarely very costly as you might know...I sometimes like
it LOUD, VERY loud...

I connect my synths/modulars in many different ways
- directly from e. g. an Serge UAP into an AUX input of a Hi-Fi Amp
- first mixing then into an AUX Input of a Hi-Fi Amp
- directly into a an active speaker system (ADAM P11A) (no problem so
far)

I talked to a speaker tech who tried to explain me that Hi-Fi amps do
not have a kind of limiter build into the signal chain (AUX in -
speaker out) in contrast to "professional" amps which do have limiters
to avoid the effect of clipping and eventually destroying especially
the high frequency speakers. Is that true?

How do you protect your speaker system against clipping?

Re: Successfully destroying your speakers

2008-03-15 by matthew carpenter

I connect my UAP and DCSM directly to the Inputs of my audio interface, adjusting the output volume on the Serge.

The audio interface (RME Fireface 800) has an analogue volume control for the output going to my active monitors (Event PS6) which have some clipping protection. I've had accidental overloads in the past but this has never caused the 'clip' light on my monitors to light up.

Matt
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, fhserge <fhserge@...> wrote:

In the past I was quite successful in destroying some of my speakers
which is not rarely very costly as you might know...I sometimes like
it LOUD, VERY loud...

I connect my synths/modulars in many different ways
- directly from e. g. an Serge UAP into an AUX input of a Hi-Fi Amp
- first mixing then into an AUX Input of a Hi-Fi Amp
- directly into a an active speaker system (ADAM P11A) (no problem so
far)

I talked to a speaker tech who tried to explain me that Hi-Fi amps do
not have a kind of limiter build into the signal chain (AUX in -
speaker out) in contrast to "professional" amps which do have limiters
to avoid the effect of clipping and eventually destroying especially
the high frequency speakers. Is that true?

How do you protect your speaker system against clipping?


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