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<blockquote data-quote="Doxquzme" data-source="post: 8848731" data-attributes="member: 689267"><p>I’m not sure where you are getting your information but it is not correct. You should never run anything when it is clipping, ever. There is a reason “clipping” lights are warning indicators, they tell you at just the point the the amp starts to clip (when it starts to detect distorted harmful current getting passed as signal) to scale back as damage will ensue. Telling people that clipping is acceptable is incorrect and could lead to people inadvertently frying their speakers. Playing a reproduction, sounds recorded (distorted from an amp that is clipping or otherwise) that was recorded and then played back from a disc has nothing to do with the amp clipping or setting your gains. <em><strong>Clipping</strong></em> is a form of distortion that limits a <em><strong>signal</strong></em> once it exceeds a threshold. If that threshold is exceeded, the amplifier it will pull raw current and send it to your spekaers instead, this is clipping and will damage your speakers. ANY signal that is clean, even feedback and distorted live or recorded program material that is played back through a clean signal is just that, reproduction of the original source material. Clipping is an electronic function, a physical manifestation of an unwanted current condition experienced by the amplifier asked to perform beyond it's means. It’s never a good thing or acceptable to advise people that it’s okay to operate your equipment in a state of clipping, ever. An amp that is rated to put out 200 watts will fry a 1000 watt RMS rated sub if you operate it while it is clipping. Don’t do it, ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doxquzme, post: 8848731, member: 689267"] I’m not sure where you are getting your information but it is not correct. You should never run anything when it is clipping, ever. There is a reason “clipping” lights are warning indicators, they tell you at just the point the the amp starts to clip (when it starts to detect distorted harmful current getting passed as signal) to scale back as damage will ensue. Telling people that clipping is acceptable is incorrect and could lead to people inadvertently frying their speakers. Playing a reproduction, sounds recorded (distorted from an amp that is clipping or otherwise) that was recorded and then played back from a disc has nothing to do with the amp clipping or setting your gains. [I][B]Clipping[/B][/I] is a form of distortion that limits a [I][B]signal[/B][/I] once it exceeds a threshold. If that threshold is exceeded, the amplifier it will pull raw current and send it to your spekaers instead, this is clipping and will damage your speakers. ANY signal that is clean, even feedback and distorted live or recorded program material that is played back through a clean signal is just that, reproduction of the original source material. Clipping is an electronic function, a physical manifestation of an unwanted current condition experienced by the amplifier asked to perform beyond it's means. It’s never a good thing or acceptable to advise people that it’s okay to operate your equipment in a state of clipping, ever. An amp that is rated to put out 200 watts will fry a 1000 watt RMS rated sub if you operate it while it is clipping. Don’t do it, ever. [/QUOTE]
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