On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:07:13 GMT
Codifus wrote:

He was using his line out from the soundcard to the amp. SPDIF was not
an option. It's quite easily possible. If you look at a Winamp EQ, the
boost settings are quite large, and if you un-check the auto checkbox,
which he did, the signals get boosted without any max output level
correction by software, then the input stages of an amplifier will be
hurting.

No, they wont.

no matter HOW much 'eq' he put on the winamp soft eq, the line output will not have (if it really was a line out) put out more than about 1V p-t-p.

some old equiment used 0.5V p-t-p but modern stuff is generally 1V p-t-p.

if he got winamp to produce some really high ouput LF square wave output its a possibility that if his amp was turn up a bit much he could have damaged his tweeters. but its not very likely, as you said - it wasnt loud.

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