clipping

[W1V2 10+ year member]

What exactly is clipping?

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[xluben 10+ year member]

http://www.bcae1.com/2ltlpwr.htm

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

clipping is the gods way of telling you to turn it down. or in other words, clipping is the devil.

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

clipping is the gods way of telling you to turn it down. or in other words, clipping is the devil.

x2

and if u dont turn it down...

ur sub will die:crap: then recone it

x1000

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LoL!

 

[cool9 10+ year member]

Excellent post.

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

x2and if u dont turn it down...

ur sub will die:crap: then recone it

x1000

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LoL!

Wont ALWAYS die...

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

Wont ALWAYS die...

if you got the power it will blow.

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

if you got the power it will blow.

But thats not always....is it?
Just saying....the sub must reach its thermal limits before clipping can take its tole...

Edit: Meh still didnt sound right....it must be NEAR its thermal limits...

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

But thats not always....is it?
Just saying....the sub must reach its thermal limits before clipping can take its tole...

ya’ll iz a smart one tonight arent ya’ll?

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

ya’ll iz a smart one tonight arent ya’ll?

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[SQBubble 10+ year member]

But thats not always....is it?
Just saying....the sub must reach its thermal limits before clipping can take its tole...

Edit: Meh still didnt sound right....it must be NEAR its thermal limits...

clippin' has nothing to do with thermal limits...u can kill a 1000rms sub with 500rms amplifier OF CLIPPED SIGNAL.

if ur givin clipped signal to a sub, every second u crank it, it is dying, wether itll take a day, a week... itll die, its like antrax, or wtv poison

LoL

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

clippin' has nothing to do with thermal limits...u can kill a 1000rms sub with 500rms amplifier OF CLIPPED SIGNAL.

Think about this for a second...what is actually destroying the driver? Magical clipping gremlins? Heat buildup is the enemy here, it most certainly is about thermal limits.

I could run my home amplifiers into a full square wave at around 16 watts per channel - and my towers would sit there and take it all day. It'd sound like garbage, but even the fully clipped signal would be well under the damage threshold of the drivers.

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

Think about this for a second...what is actually destroying the driver? Magical clipping gremlins? Heat buildup is the enemy here, it most certainly is about thermal limits.
I could run my home amplifiers into a full square wave at around 16 watts per channel - and my towers would sit there and take it all day. It'd sound like garbage, but even the fully clipped signal would be well under the damage threshold of the drivers.

woops,

i wanted to say that u CAN reach thermal limit alot easier by a clipped signal well before reaching thermal limit of unclipped signal of the sub!

that makes more sense...

correct me if im wrong plz.

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

clippin' has nothing to do with thermal limits...u can kill a 1000rms sub with 500rms amplifier OF CLIPPED SIGNAL.
if ur givin clipped signal to a sub, every second u crank it, it is dying, wether itll take a day, a week... itll die, its like antrax, or wtv poison

LoL

No, you can't sorry, well you can, but it's not magic. A low powered clipped signal won't hurt a speaker. I could take my 100 watt amp turn the gains all the way up and play test tones all day. There's simply not enough thermal energy there to overheat.

Amps can put out way more than rated power, just not without clipping, that's why speakers die. Since the original wavefrom is no longer being generated (tops are "clipped" off), you lose excursion over a clean signal with the the same power. During clipping an amp is being pushed do it's limits, sometimes putting out over 2x the power its' rated at. Meaning you 500 watt amp is now putting out 1000 watts to a 1000 watt rated sub. However since it's not a clean signal, you are loosing excursion, meaning your getting less air flow than the designers intended to the sub to have at 1000 watts. This buildup of energy will eventually fry the sub.

It's the same reason why if you build too small a box you may not be able to give a sub RMS wattage. You'll never reach mechanical limits in that box. Meaning your giving it RMS without full cooling, aka fryed speaker.

 

[Thermem mermem 10+ year member]

if the amp (jl 250/1)is clipping and starts to heat up shouldnt it go into thermal mode? but wont it most likely blow the subs first