Amp Clipping ?

[Naga]

ive heard this is very detrimental to headphones, how does one detect this - what does it sound like? and what other such sounds can damage a pair of cans?

my emu 0404 passes a pair of flicking sounds every now and then, is this harmful to my headphones?

 

[CPL593H]

Sort of a hard ragged raspy edge to the sound. You'll hear it when it happens. It can damage your ears too as you get a lot of energy in a clipped wave form. (important safety tip)
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[bhd812]

I would say it just sounds distorted at certain points...everything muddies up and is not clean like it should be..

My 8watt tube amp does this If I turn it up with my dynaudio speakers intoe.
Of course its going to cause the speakers require way more then what the amp has to give...

I can listen at very low volumes though, but if I go half way up on the amp with the rite song.....muddy!!!!!

 

[CPL593H]

Billy D.

You raise an interesting point. That is tube amps clip somewhat differently than solid state. The clipping wave form on a tube amp tends to have rounded off peaks as compared to ss's hard corners. They sound different when they go into clipping. Tubes have a gentle sound and ss is hard when they clip.