Cleve Wrote: > To be fair - do most sources (ie, cd players, tuners, tape decks, phono > cartridges) have any type of "level protection" built in? I don't > think so. Regardless, situations like this make me glad I have > McIntosh amplification with Power Guard and Sentry Monitor. My > loudspeaker investment is kept safe and protected from a component > going "berserk".It doesn't matter what sort of input source; there is almost > always something that can go wrong. Maybe you think that grooves on a record are only so wide, so there is some maximum voltage. But that doesn't mean that sub-harmonics on a record cannot blow out your speakers given enough juice.
Hence in the analog world you have high-pass filters, low-pass filters, compressors, limiters, etc. All sorts of tools to make sound work and not damage your expensive equipment. In the digital world, it takes a stream processing architecture that validates the stream and filters it with a digital peak limiter. You could also do compression and high/low pass filters all in the digital domain. This approach would rely on level-setting your analog gain stages appropriately. In my experience with SB1/SB3, I don't think the SB does anything to provide safe signals. Sean could of course correct me on this. -- enduser ------------------------------------------------------------------------ enduser's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18818 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
