It's perfectly safe for the amplifier and every amplifier will clip at some power level. The intelligent thing to do is match the speakers efficiency to the amplifier's power output, and follow the safe general rule that when your meters are hovering in the 1/4 maximum power range, the dynamic peaks may be just below clipping. With that said it depends on the music in general. Music tends to be compressed to less than 10dB average dynamic range in modern recordings.
That's what happens when you try to make a weak amplifier produce more volume. The average power of the wave is louder because it spends more time away from the center silence, but the fidelity and dynamic range are ruined. Yes it is possible to make recognizable speech with just 1 bit of dynamic range and 100% clipping, but it is very loud and distorted. I remember this program for the IBM PC from 1988 which played voice through the PC internal paper speaker with 1 bit, so I know it's possible
It's perfectly safe for the amplifier and every amplifier will clip at some power level. The intelligent thing to do is match the speakers efficiency to the amplifier's power output, and follow the safe general rule that when your meters are hovering in the 1/4 maximum power range, the dynamic peaks may be just below clipping. With that said it depends on the music in general. Music tends to be compressed to less than 10dB average dynamic range in modern recordings.
Maxzoe20 1 year ago
That's what happens when you try to make a weak amplifier produce more volume. The average power of the wave is louder because it spends more time away from the center silence, but the fidelity and dynamic range are ruined. Yes it is possible to make recognizable speech with just 1 bit of dynamic range and 100% clipping, but it is very loud and distorted. I remember this program for the IBM PC from 1988 which played voice through the PC internal paper speaker with 1 bit, so I know it's possible
Amishman35 3 years ago
that's kinda freaky!
subman1992 3 years ago