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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: 8848776" data-attributes="member: 673702"><p>You cannot fry a 1kw sub with a 200 watt amp because regardless of how much you clip a 200 watt amp you will always fry the amp or hopefully the fuses before you hit 1kw. </p><p></p><p>You're welcome to be scared of clipping and terrify others about clipping with misinformation, but that doesn't make it reality nor does that make the misinformation you're posting true. </p><p></p><p>You can clip and it can be done safely. No the clipped signal isn't going to rip the sub's surround or spider or we wouldn't be able to run square waves thru speakers and the clipping present in so many recordings would blowing speakers all the time, so lets cross that off the "never ever clip under any circumstances" list. You cannot clip an amp into an "ocean of noise" - the amp will fail first and the power supply will not be able to maintain voltage at those levels of clipping, so let's cross that off the list. Plenty of people run their amps into clipping, the clipping indicator is there to let you know you're clipping not to signal impending doom and that your speakers will be failing any moment now. DJs often run their equipment at clipping and they're depending on their equipment to make money. Something else to be crossed off the "never ever clip" list.</p><p></p><p>It's not rocket science and can easily be explained a post or two. Some 18 year old kid who just installed his first audio system can understand that if he set his gains not to clip, but turns on 6db of bass boost he's going to clip. Should he play Bass Mechanic for at max volume for hours under these conditions - probably not. Can he compensate by turning the volume down 3db and play Bass Mechanic all day long - sure can. And if he's playing Van Halen, he can get away with the 6db of clipping all day long. If you can do simple addition and subtraction, then you can safely clip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jimi77, post: 8848776, member: 673702"] You cannot fry a 1kw sub with a 200 watt amp because regardless of how much you clip a 200 watt amp you will always fry the amp or hopefully the fuses before you hit 1kw. You're welcome to be scared of clipping and terrify others about clipping with misinformation, but that doesn't make it reality nor does that make the misinformation you're posting true. You can clip and it can be done safely. No the clipped signal isn't going to rip the sub's surround or spider or we wouldn't be able to run square waves thru speakers and the clipping present in so many recordings would blowing speakers all the time, so lets cross that off the "never ever clip under any circumstances" list. You cannot clip an amp into an "ocean of noise" - the amp will fail first and the power supply will not be able to maintain voltage at those levels of clipping, so let's cross that off the list. Plenty of people run their amps into clipping, the clipping indicator is there to let you know you're clipping not to signal impending doom and that your speakers will be failing any moment now. DJs often run their equipment at clipping and they're depending on their equipment to make money. Something else to be crossed off the "never ever clip" list. It's not rocket science and can easily be explained a post or two. Some 18 year old kid who just installed his first audio system can understand that if he set his gains not to clip, but turns on 6db of bass boost he's going to clip. Should he play Bass Mechanic for at max volume for hours under these conditions - probably not. Can he compensate by turning the volume down 3db and play Bass Mechanic all day long - sure can. And if he's playing Van Halen, he can get away with the 6db of clipping all day long. If you can do simple addition and subtraction, then you can safely clip. [/QUOTE]
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