Clipping


How do you know if your speakers have been damaged due to clipping?
kevo156

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If you have it, Peter Gabriel's "So" contains a great test track that I've used to identify a clipping-damaged tweeter (been there, done that, more than once). Check out Track 8, "We Do What We're Told". No need to listen to all of it...the opening measures before the lyrics will tell you what you need to know. If there is damage to a tweeter, you will hear a scatchy obviously distorted sound. You'll know it when you hear it. If it sounds lyrical and smooth...so far, so good.
Great...I should have added, listen with your ear quite close to the tweeter(s) to hear the distortion. When I had a problem the sustained instrumental notes and choir voices in the intro would break up at moderate volumes. But I really needed to be close to hear the "buzzing", as I recall.