Cooked another woofer with Beats 4 My Van :D

[timma100 10+ year member]

Just get audacity, load the song up and check to see if it's clipping. Then don't touch another amp without a dmm or oscope.

Hey now, every setup that song has destroyed was tuned by someone else :|

BTW the song is smooth.. no clipping :\

 

[THATpurpleKUSH 5,000+ posts]

Lightning Audio subs are garbage anyway, prob had a 1.5in coil so it won't handle much above 200rms. By saying the gain was halfway up, you are basically admitting to the amp clipping due to an improper gain setting. When will people learn, gain is not a volume adjustment.....

 

[kramer_212 10+ year member]

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[JoshC 10+ year member]

Are you guys trying to say that an mp3 can cause a amp to go into clipping?

Its a data file, i dont see how it cause clipping vs a CD

(Im saying like one song dosnt clip, then one does just becuase of its format/eq. or w/e)

 

[JoshC 10+ year member]

Lightning Audio subs are garbage anyway, prob had a 1.5in coil so it won't handle much above 200rms. By saying the gain was halfway up, you are basically admitting to the amp clipping due to an improper gain setting. When will people learn, gain is not a volume adjustment.....

With equipment like that theres no way there preouts were more then 2.5v, so half way up wouldnt be clipping. 2-2.5vs is like a 2-3o clock not 12

(I say no more the 2v cuz im guesssing a cheaper HU too)

 

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

Are you guys trying to say that an mp3 can cause a amp to go into clipping?
Its a data file, i dont see how it cause clipping vs a CD

(Im saying like one song dosnt clip, then one does just becuase of its format/eq. or w/e)

No the mp3 file itself is clipped, meaning it could have been ripped off the cd and the gain of the song increased. this in a way how decaf did his music, he would lower the mid/highs and raise the bass, but not enough for the song to be clipping. Thats why his songs were louder than others with bass but wouldn't cause you to clip. If you raise the highs/mids/bass of the song (or just the gain itself), you'll put the song into clipping, and any stereo you play it on will also be clipping, since the orginal song is clipping too.

 

[Falcons 5,000+ posts]

this dude is ******. can you hook that song up to my car and see if you can blow some speakers? that's be cool!

 

[JoshC 10+ year member]

No the mp3 file itself is clipped, meaning it could have been ripped off the cd and the gain of the song increased. this in a way how decaf did his music, he would lower the mid/highs and raise the bass, but not enough for the song to be clipping. Thats why his songs were louder than others with bass but wouldn't cause you to clip. If you raise the highs/mids/bass of the song (or just the gain itself), you'll put the song into clipping, and any stereo you play it on will also be clipping, since the orginal song is clipping too.

I didnt consider adjusting the gain of the song lol just indiviudal Fq levels, that would be pointless lol but i do see what u ment now