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What does clipping sound like?

I have been wondering if the break up distortion I hear with my 60 watt tube amps is because I have insufficient power for my 91db 6 ohm minimal speakers. I do question if that rating of my speakers is correct.
When the music swells, I get break up sound. It is not on low notes or high volume. I do wonder how my speakers would perform with a lot more power. I have always thought that any speaker likes more power.
mglik
mglik OP
914 posts
 
I think it is mistracking. Miyajima Shalabi wt Triplanar arm. I don’t have this distortion on Netflix, etc.
Waiting on a Lyra Atlas SL.  Hope that is better.
Also distortion on new LPs so not just old, worn record sound.
cakyol's avatar
cakyol
940 posts
 
I have blown a few cheap speakers with clipping in the past :-)

In my case, it sounded like a small hammer hitting the insides of the speaker enclosure, very very quickly followed by tweeter failures.

It may obviously be different for other speakers.
perkri
926 posts
 
Is this at the beginning, middle or end of record, or is it evenly across the entire side?
millercarbon's avatar
millercarbon
12,531 posts
 
I think it is mistracking

No kidding. What I said. Ralph was also on the right track.

Question now is, Why? Are we certain we are tracking at the correct VTF?
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emrofsemanon
292 posts
 
a 65 watt per channel amplifier was nowhere near enough oomph to drive a pair of small Thiel speakers, but 130/side is just enough to avoid the crackly sound in the low bass that i heard with the weaker amp, when playing organ music.
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