Thanks Christof and Lucas for your replies! > The Amp and the Speaker will just work on "one half" of their normal area. > (50% of its audio loudness). > Exactly, that is the difference I hear in loudness. > It shouldn't hurt the amp or the speaker as long as you don't try to pump up > the volume. You might break the speaker if you increase too much the volume. > (it will sound soft but you are pushing it too much to one of its extremes). > Indeed, this is an important warning that should be in the docs (if it's there other than getting rid of DC offset, I must have missed it)
> Personally, I like to play it safe and add a [hip~ 5] as a DC filter before > my [dac~] :-) I do this, too, just by (blindly) following the pd manual and helpfiles... perhaps this calls for a tiny adjustment to the [dac] object to always implement a hipass (with perhaps a flag to revert to a non-hipass-5 enabled [dac]). Just a thought, but one that could be easily argued against given pd's agnostic qualities. > You might use your DAC to send control voltages for a modular synthesizer, > for example. I have never tried this, but I guess it might be an edge case, and quite an interesting one. So, if I want to get more technical as to what exactly happens to the speakers when sending such "malformed" or "halfformed?" signals, do you know where I can find good sources that would explain this? I guess there's a math foundation here that would justify the need for a -1..1 correct signal range... an age old one that probably relates to the Nyquist theorem... but I can't see how. In any case, thanks again for the quick replies! Best, f
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