kidtoyota Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Here is a little interview with a couple of the guys from kicker at the SEMA show last week Click here to see Video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Nothing too great but a good explanation of how under powering or clipping a sub is a bad for the noobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhinoSS Posted January 13, 2007 Report Share Posted January 13, 2007 Nothing too great but a good explanation of how under powering or clipping a sub is a bad for the noobs. X2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beatitouttheframe Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 wow thats kinda cool to hear and learn i mean most amps dont do what they say the do that parts true but what brand really tell the truth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Tech Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 i would say a CEA certified amp does. I have a question... a noob question i guess... but what i thought about clipping was that, yea the signal would get flatter at the top as you try to push the amp for more power that it is not capable of producing with a clean sin wave, but if your amp is clipping, and at clipping lets say it is giving your sub 300 watts, and your sub can take 500 Watts RMS, will it really destroy it? I know clipping can really overheat your amp, obviously because it is creating way more power of clipped signal than the amp can dissipate, but will it screw your sub up, because what i thought the only way a sub can be damaged was by having to much power (as a result of hte clipped sin wave) and hte sub not being able to dissipate the heat efficiently enough so, i guess like the guy said, the rubber or wahtever starts to get soft, and the voice coil burns. Quote Baylor University Accounting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Tech Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 never mind i found this...http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/forums/index.php?topic=245.0 it says... Wrong...Ive said it before...a woofer cannot die from clipping ALONE...it must reach its thermal limits before clipping takes its affect. Example. If a woofer can handle 500 watts thermally and your clipping a 250 watt amp, chances are the clipped signal will be sending double its rated power. It MAY damage the woofer...If your powering something with very little power, clipping alone will not kill it... so clipping can "damage" the subwoofer, but will not actually fry the subwoofers voicecoil making it not able to work? Quote Baylor University Accounting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 never mind i found this...http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/forums/index.php?topic=245.0 it says... Wrong...Ive said it before...a woofer cannot die from clipping ALONE...it must reach its thermal limits before clipping takes its affect. Example. If a woofer can handle 500 watts thermally and your clipping a 250 watt amp, chances are the clipped signal will be sending double its rated power. It MAY damage the woofer...If your powering something with very little power, clipping alone will not kill it... [glow=red,2,300]so clipping can "damage" the subwoofer, but will not actually fry the subwoofers voicecoil making it not able to work? [/glow] Think of clipping as a slow painful death to your subs...Eventually they will die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emperorjj1 Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 it actually depends on how bad the clipping is... im pretty sure you can kill an amp thru clipping very quickly as well as slowly Quote J. JMy CardomainFINISHED COBALT SS/SC DUAL ALTERNATOR PICS theres no such thing as too expensive when it comes to upgrades like that, because imo if you are gonna spend to upgrade then do it correctly rather then be a cheap ass ricer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Tech Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 i understand that, but i like explanations of how it happens, not that it just happens, no offense or anything im not trying to piss anyone off. I just like to know the details and how it happens. If the clipping power never exceeds the rated power of the subwoofer then how does it happen? It ruins it mechanically? Quote Baylor University Accounting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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