will certain aphex tracks....

Hello i just recently purchased a nifty pair of JBL JRX100s for me to throw parties with.

I've been babying these pups and that's why i'm wondering if there are any tracks by RDJ that have been known to blow speakers.

I was wondering this since i was playing equation off of vinyl and the harsh noises sounded potentially dangerous to my speakers.

does anyone have any input? sorry if this is a noobish question.

a drunken mate's mug of beer is a greater danger to speakers than any audio signal

http://soundcloud.com/nevenen/satvia-dub

agreed. btw all of you listening to equation on some diminished audio quality you got off a torrent are missing out!

i know, it should be like the autechre forum where people have dedicated autechre listening rooms with ganzfield and sensory deprivation and a mattress featuring complete darkness.

http://soundcloud.com/nevenen/terpentintollwut

I blew my old Logitech Z 5500 speakers while listening to Aphex before, can't remember which particular track it was tho... thank god Logitech has great customer service along with warranty. They replaced it, all I had to do was send my control unit back to them, got to keep all my speakers which were still good (minus the sub) and got a new set sent to me. I had the volume all the way up and into the boost volume settings almost maxed. Sounded awesome for almost a hour and was really getting into it when it blew.

No. Only playing at a ridiculously high volume level for a very long time might cause damage.

  On 8/5/2011 at 8:24 AM, Bubz said:

Hello i just recently purchased a nifty pair of JBL JRX100s for me to throw parties with.

I've been babying these pups and that's why i'm wondering if there are any tracks by RDJ that have been known to blow speakers.

I was wondering this since i was playing equation off of vinyl and the harsh noises sounded potentially dangerous to my speakers.

does anyone have any input? sorry if this is a noobish question.

Can I come to your party? Pleeeease!!

  On 8/5/2011 at 10:56 AM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

I had the volume all the way up and into the boost volume settings almost maxed. Sounded awesome for almost a hour and was really getting into it when it blew.

yehhh totally did that to my car speakers on my 5 month old car. had the bass eq setting on the stereo maxed and the eq setting on my ipod on bass booster songs that i think blew it were some tracks by electromeca and venetian snares.

my car is much older. the stereo is not stock, because the original broke. the new stereo puts out 45 watts per channel, while each speaker is only capable of 25 watts per channel. only the music of chris clark sounds right if i crank it past halfway.

Second Peng destroyed a beautiful, really old and large speaker. But it was my fault, I put the bass all the way up, max volume and I leveled both channels to one speaker.

alright so lesson learned. dont turn speakers up all the way with the bass turned up.

here all along i thought it was user error, clipped sigs, and underpowered drivers causing failure.

apparently this brilliant community thinks songs into themselves cause

that explains a lot

If i turned my logitech system all the way up I would have cops at my door in 15 minutes. You all must have a house rather than an apartment.

i do have a house. and its next to a major highway so there already is a lot of loud noises.

  On 8/5/2011 at 11:20 PM, hahathhat said:

my car is much older. the stereo is not stock, because the original broke. the new stereo puts out 45 watts per channel, while each speaker is only capable of 25 watts per channel. only the music of chris clark sounds right if i crank it past halfway.

that's why clark uses that much compression

as the only bad things for speakers are flat things on scope (vertical for impulsions, like when disconnecting the jack when the amp is on, horizontal for continuous current or excessive clipping, too much volume for exemple), if you don't see any of it by opening the file in audacity you won't have any problem except getting out of the speaker power capabilities