gallowsroad
join:2004-08-09
Tulsa, OK
| reply to WALL_E
Re: Question about "clipping" in some music
If those peaks are in the recorded signal, no, it won't cause any harm to your speakers.
Clipping that causes harm to speakers occurs when an amplifier is over driven, and clips the output wave form. That sort of amplifier generated distortion can annihilate a speaker.
Speakers themselves can clip, in a sense, if the amplifier is too powerful for them and the volume is turned up high enough that the output from the amp is simply more than the speaker can handle. That's when drivers and even crossovers are damaged or destroyed.
Oddly enough, it is underpowered amps that kill more speakers than muscle amps do. They are more easily over driven.
But the recorded signal itself, even if it contains clipped passages, will not damage your speakers. It will sound like crap, though. 
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