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throwaway789657
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throwaway789657
5y ago
Do you know where I could learn about the unreliability and downsides of what I'm suggesting? Somehow all of the other electronic gear I own is tolerant of anything short of a lightning strike (and for that, there's surge protecto
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throwaway789657
5y ago
I'm curious. Can you say more about why?
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throwaway789657
5y ago
So if I turn the knob on my a/v receiver all the way up, my speakers won't blow out? I'm obviously not going to try it, but my understanding is that they would get damaged. To prevent this, I set a maximum volume on the recei
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throwaway789657
5y ago
If you have your own receiver and your own speakers--a home stereo system, not a PC speaker system--it is just a matter of turning the nob too high to blow them out. With all these wifi-connected receivers these days, I bet if your laptop i
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throwaway789657
5y ago
So this poor reliability is just rampant in the sound industry? Unless there is some reason why such a circuit is not feasible without, e.g., decreasing sound quality. Which is the kind of thing my original question is asking about.
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throwaway789657
5y ago
In no other high-end consumer product would that unreliability be tolerated. Why would you ever run your speakers at a volume that might blow them out depending on what the next bar of the song sounds like? Are you pre-screening every singl
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5y ago
Why don't all speakers have some circuitry that blocks any signal that could blow out the speakers? This has always seemed like an absurd state of affairs. It should not be possible to damage speakers by turning the volume too loud.