Can a power surge cause amp to clip?

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You heard a clipping sound, like the on/off switch being thrown very quickly?

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You have some device that says "I clipped X number of timed in the last number of hours".

Don't you have to be playing something to clip? The signal is going beyond and breaks the wave forum "Clipping" the Tops and Bottoms off the mountains and valleys. Paper tears, stuff breaks, smoke comes out of voice coils..

For a surge to come into a home it would have to come from the pole or a lightning strike, right? So isn’t that the reason for the bonding between pole and the ground rod at the main, over current coming in.

I’d make darn sure there wasn’t a problem there first..

That is the reason for a fast acting surge protector and voltage maintainer. The higher the joule the faster the reaction time.

We use to have brown outs, just a power supply killer. Then blackouts.
Coming back on was the second problem (surge) after the couple of hours at 100-120.
Thus a maintainer and surge protector..

No problems sense the late 80.
They went from 8K to 20k lines in our residential area. First upgrade sense before WWII they said.. Copper line to aluminum. They said it was a better material.. LOL I kept my 50 year old copper at the time.. I had an upgrade option.. Either or. It stopped all the power outages and I never lost another PS on a computer. Tandy, Atari, Commodore 64 and Clone 8086 and 88s.. 5 meg hard drives were super expensive and you had to flip a 360 floppy to get both sides at 160 bytes per side.. 

That sure was a long time ago.. Been here a long time.. 1982.

Regards