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durwood · 10-13-2006, 06:26 PM

It will not blow up. You will just be overdriving the input stage of the amp. It will just "clip" the input. Picture a nice smooth wave and then chop the top and bottom of the wave off. It then becomes more of a square wave instead of a sinusoidal wave (for 1 pure frequency). In other words the music will sound distorted. This would be called input gain clipping. You can correct it by adjusting the output level of the line driver...if it has a level control and most usually do.

10-13-2006, 06:26 PM	#4
durwood Car Audio Moderator Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Chicagoland - Finally settled in St. Charles,IL Posts: 1,794	It will not blow up. You will just be overdriving the input stage of the amp. It will just "clip" the input. Picture a nice smooth wave and then chop the top and bottom of the wave off. It then becomes more of a square wave instead of a sinusoidal wave (for 1 pure frequency). In other words the music will sound distorted. This would be called input gain clipping. You can correct it by adjusting the output level of the line driver...if it has a level control and most usually do. __________________ Worklog - Constantly upgrading. System under construction How to do all Audio Processing on the Computer Last edited by durwood; 10-13-2006 at 06:32 PM.