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Wil these settings effect anything after I set my gains?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jimi77" data-source="post: 8848763" data-attributes="member: 673702"><p>My information is from a little over 35 years of participating in the hobby as a hobbyist, a repairman and installer. It's from learning from some of the best installers in the industry (ie Eric Chan/Totoro). I had somebody on here recently asking me if I had a copy of his CD on how to set your amp to clip properly. Clipping is fine as long as it's done within reason and done with an understanding of what clipping is and as long as you know when you are and aren't clipping. There are all sorts of reasons to set the gains with a small amount of clipping, one of them being music has less continuous power output than sine waves, so when you set the gains to clip you can get maximum output from the amplifier. Most subwoofer motor topologies aren't good at revealing clipping distortion so why not clip a little. You can run a smaller/cheaper amp - although that benefit isn't as beneficial as it once was. Most people can't hear or like clipping distortion. And no you won't fry a 1kw sub with a 200 watt amp with clipping - the amp would fry first or blow its fuse. You might be able to fry a 250-300 watt sub with a 200 watt amp and significant clipping if you were willing to play it full blast for hours or use sine waves and that's still a might.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jimi77, post: 8848763, member: 673702"] My information is from a little over 35 years of participating in the hobby as a hobbyist, a repairman and installer. It's from learning from some of the best installers in the industry (ie Eric Chan/Totoro). I had somebody on here recently asking me if I had a copy of his CD on how to set your amp to clip properly. Clipping is fine as long as it's done within reason and done with an understanding of what clipping is and as long as you know when you are and aren't clipping. There are all sorts of reasons to set the gains with a small amount of clipping, one of them being music has less continuous power output than sine waves, so when you set the gains to clip you can get maximum output from the amplifier. Most subwoofer motor topologies aren't good at revealing clipping distortion so why not clip a little. You can run a smaller/cheaper amp - although that benefit isn't as beneficial as it once was. Most people can't hear or like clipping distortion. And no you won't fry a 1kw sub with a 200 watt amp with clipping - the amp would fry first or blow its fuse. You might be able to fry a 250-300 watt sub with a 200 watt amp and significant clipping if you were willing to play it full blast for hours or use sine waves and that's still a might. [/QUOTE]
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