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Clipping Poll - Summary and Conclusions
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Oh my....as you know all too well, there is no consensus on anything related to clipping!!
That is just one of the many conclusions that I posted in an effort to summarize my understanding of the "facts".
I scanned a thread you were participating in today, in which in just two pages all the traditional theories were trotted out (clipping = DC, clipping = no air movement/no heat dissipation, clipping causes surge of high frequency power due to harmonics, clipping distortion causes the damage).
I've made a vow to myself to go at least a month without participating in any additional clipping threads!
JBL GUY
Addicted Member
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If the power being pushed to the speakers by an amp - be it clipping or not - is less than the speakers can handle, they will not be damaged. If the power being pushed to the speakers is more than they can handle, they will be damaged....again, regardless of whether the amp is clipping or not."
I believe it is safe to say, judging from the responses that are found when this topic comes up for discussion, that a fair number of people believe the above to be untrue or incorrect.
From a pure hard numbers perspective, it is difficult to say with any assured accuracy that it is a consensus.
The science behind what happens when an audio amplifier is driving into any percentage of clipping at any frequency(s) is well know, easy to measure and easy to demonstrate.
whoaru99
Epic Member
It seems almost inevitable that no matter what the discussion, as soon as someone asks if "x" power is OK, worst case scenarios professing imminent disaster come out of the woodwork. I don't run my $hit that way, my guess is you don't either, nor I opine do the other respondents in the threads. So, why it is always assumed the OP will? I don't get it...
Me either. That's why I often take the time to explain the basics of the relationship between power, loudness, speaker sensitivity and clipping to when a newbie OP asks this kind of question. They are never going to be able to understand (and filter) the answers if they don't have a grasp on the basics.
My general advice re clipping is to avoid it/minimize it (because it reduces sound quality, because it may lead to inadvertently overpowering your HF drivers, and because it may trigger bad behavior on part of your amp, which in turn may damage your speakers)....in other words, because nothing good can come of it. I suspect that this statement might get as much in the way of consensus as would ever be possible on this topic.
And to heck with my vow...I'm heading over to that other thread so that I can weigh in!!
My general advice re clipping is to avoid it/minimize it (because it reduces sound quality, because it may lead to inadvertently overpowering your HF drivers, and because it may trigger bad behavior on part of your amp, which in turn may damage your speakers)....in other words, because nothing good can come of it. I suspect that this statement might get as much in the way of consensus as would ever be possible on this topic.
And to heck with my vow...I'm heading over to that other thread so that I can weigh in!!
chicks
Lunatic Member
Probably for the best. Most will simply ignore the facts, and continue to post their opinions as though they were equal to the facts. Willful Ignorance was Monty Montgomery's apt term for it.
I am sure you are right...but see the last line of my previous post. :yes: