jgi420 Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 (edited) Now I'm not sure how's this works but a lot of new amplifiers have clip lights now I guess my question is If a speaker or a subwoofer is being overpowered does the clip light come on or does it only come on due to distortion. Are these new amps capable of sensing when a speaker is being overpowered to help prevent you from blowing them up. I know in the old days amps had protection lights which would come on if the amp was overheating or something. Now I know that's different. But has car audio really evolved to the point where the clip light could be an indicator of a system being overpowered. I'm just wondering and the reason why I asked because I recently upgraded to newer more powerful speakers and a better box and I'm just wondering if my amp is going to clip at the same level of gain? I just hooked everything up and got it installed and I have not adjusted anything or ran any test tones yet. So I was kind of just wondering if I was going to be able to adjust the gain higher or lower. I'm kind of curious if I was not getting to use the full power of the amp with my previous setup. Edited January 13 by jgi420 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe X Posted January 13 Report Share Posted January 13 You can overpower a sub without clipping and yo can get a sub blown without any clipping, The thing is that a clipped signal contains significantly more energy than it's undistorted counterpart so you have to avoid clipping at all costs. The amplifier can't tell if you are overpowering a driver, the clipping light just means that the amplifier is generating clipping distortion even if you can't hear it and that has nothing to do with the sub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgi420 Posted January 14 Author Report Share Posted January 14 Okay, thanks for the information I wasn't sure on that. So yeah I'll keep that in mind for future reference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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