Max loudness W/O damage to speakers

[SteakJohnson]

Anyone know a way to find the max volume you can safely play your monitors without damaging them?

[Mich]

At 1/16/14 03:38 PM, SteakJohnson wrote: Anyone know a way to find the max volume you can safely play your monitors without damaging them?

Normally, if the amplifier is built-in, it should be designed in a way that cannot break the actual speakers. If it's a bit cleverly engineered, overloading the input still won't damage it either.

That said, I'd go with playing bass notes with a non-distorted input, and turn it up until you start hearing distortions, as that'd probably mean the speaker cones are getting out of the range the speakers were built for.

[SteakJohnson]

Ah thanks, good to know, will try that

[joshhunsaker]

At 1/16/14 03:38 PM, SteakJohnson wrote: Anyone know a way to find the max volume you can safely play your monitors without damaging them?

You can do this with a decent microphone and a digital scope with an FFT function. Check to see when you start getting too much harmonic generation from a pure sine tone.