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Protecting speakers in home theatre application?

I have an Adcom preamp and amp (GFP-565, GFA-535 II) driving a set of B&W Nautilus 804s. I am considering using this with a new TV via a (yet to be purchased) DAC, but I am wondering whether driving the speakers with TV / movie audio with non-music, non-voice special effects audio audio risks damage to the speakers. This includes signal drop-outs / and static-bursts since the HDTV tuner will be over the air broadcast rather than cable.

I looked for prior discussions but did not find them. Any thoughts or pointers to other discussions?

One final comment- I care most about music, not TV and movies, which I just need to hear. I’m not trying to build a theatre. So, I’m hoping to get a rather cheap DAC and maybe a cheap line-level pre-amp with a remote volume control. These components could also be a worry. To be clear, the setup would be to take the digital TV signal via toslink to a DAC; take the line level from the DAC by RCA to the in-line volume control and from there to an AUX in of the Adcom preamp. For music, my CD player goes into another input of the Adcom pre-amp and is free of all this new nonsense...just CD, Adcom pre-amp, amp, and speakers.
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willland
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" Willand- What DAC were you using?  (The 804s were about 3k rather than 7k back when I got them.)"

I am using a Cambridge Audio 840C player/Dac.  When streaming Pandora from my TV I let the 840C upsample to 384kHz/24-bit but with Netflix I let the Dolby Digital 5.1 signal pass through unaltered to my NAD pre/pro.

Bill


wolf_garcia
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My Silverline Prelude tweeters have little screens on them to supposedly help acoustically with treble dispersion or something, and are thusly protected. I was talking about this with a sales dude at Goodwin's once…the groovy  Magicos have a beryllium or non-obtainium or mondo expensivium tweeter sitting there just daring people to touch them, and he said, "uh" or "murmph" or something…amazingly, many other extreme high end speakers have exposed tweeters which is fine I suppose if you never let other humans near them.
efrank OP
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My pre-amp has inputs / outputs for an external signal processor. Any reason why I could not put a filter there if I decide to do so? The advantage to this is that, on this preamp, there's a button to remove the external signal processor from the signal path, which could be done for non-TV listening.
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