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-3db or 0db when setting gain?
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<blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 7957546" data-attributes="member: 560148"><p>Your splitting hairs at that point. IMO, just use your ears like I stated.. If you want to use a tone I'd use a -3 and do it without your sub level turned all the way up.. If you listen to alot of bass heavy rap you should still be fine, just as ALWAYS stop turning it up with it's not getting louder and don't turn the sub level all the way up. Oh and i forgot to mention. Impedence changes greatly with frequency. Meaning if you set your gain at 0db using a 60hz tone, that really only guarantees you won't clip on a 60hz tone.. Music unfortunately, changes frequencies constantly, you could still potentially clip on say a 30hz tone if the impedence is lower.. Just another reason not to sweat the whole DMM and tone thing to awful much.. It really doesn't have enough correlation to what your amps and speakers will do on real music.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="T3mpest, post: 7957546, member: 560148"] Your splitting hairs at that point. IMO, just use your ears like I stated.. If you want to use a tone I'd use a -3 and do it without your sub level turned all the way up.. If you listen to alot of bass heavy rap you should still be fine, just as ALWAYS stop turning it up with it's not getting louder and don't turn the sub level all the way up. Oh and i forgot to mention. Impedence changes greatly with frequency. Meaning if you set your gain at 0db using a 60hz tone, that really only guarantees you won't clip on a 60hz tone.. Music unfortunately, changes frequencies constantly, you could still potentially clip on say a 30hz tone if the impedence is lower.. Just another reason not to sweat the whole DMM and tone thing to awful much.. It really doesn't have enough correlation to what your amps and speakers will do on real music. [/QUOTE]
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