Anyone know a way to find the max volume you can safely play your monitors without damaging them?
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.
Ah thanks, good to know, will try that
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.
