Dirty power?

[2loud4uboyz]

You should ask Kranny on here he really loves auto pipe amp a lot he think there dirty girls . Sorry had to. People on here will and have explained it to you sir. Dirty power no good, dirty girls no good.

[CRudy]

Sorry guys, i went to bed early last night, went to school and went fishing after school today so i just got home. Anyways i drive a 2002 jeep liberty sport. Also, if by chance I hook up my music to run in my speakers with a jack and I am giving some "dirty" power, what would you suggest i use instead of the jack?

[Ben Fultz]

Are you using a phone or a Ipod? If your using a phone and your head-unit is blue-tooth capable, steam it that way. Or if unit isn't blue-tooth capable or you are using a Ipod use a Ipod/I phone to usb cable. Another option is to load your music to usb zip drives, again if your head-unit has that option.

[CRudy]

i'm using an iphone. Yeah my headunit is a POS jensen so it doesnt really have too much features such as bluetooth and a usb slot, but i did read a thread a while back about head unit clipping and shit it was just kinda confusing haha. I would think it'd be sweet to upload all my music on a usb drive and just plug that into the headunit and what not but thats in the future when i have the money to by a nicer headunit

[skittlesRgood]

A dirty output and clipping are not the same things. Clipping is generally user error at the amp, head unit, or can even be in the music and clipping is definitely damaging. dirty power will produce static. This can be harmful over time, but it's mostly annoying.

There are some other funny things that can happen to a wave form but this answers the question.

Here is an example of dirty power vs clean. all those "hairs" on the dirty signal that stick above the dotted line would be clipping. this is how it can be damaging over time.

And this is a clipped signal.

[CRudy]

ahh shit sorry guys im confused again. so there is a difference between so a signal/output can be being clipped or dirty?

[skittlesRgood]

There is a difference. although everyone else in this thread seems to think they are the same as well.

[BoomZoom808]

In your explanation I take it as a dirty signal being a bad cable end or loose connection while clipped would be an amp gain set to high? correct?

Can you elaborate more dirty power as apposed to dirty signal?

[skittlesRgood]

when people usually talk about an amp producing dirty power, they mean the AC output of the amp. several things can cause a dirty signal before the amp but that's irrelevant when you're talking about and amp's capability. saying "that brand of amplifier puts out dirty power... when you have a noisy input signal." would be pretty dumb right?

now with a signal, that is still the AC sine wave. people usually mean the RCA input to an amp when they talk about the signal but the output is just the same signal, amplified. noise can be introduced at any time in the signal path.