Tweeter - My "friend" pushed it in...

Clipping? I have soft clipping turned on at the moment...and i may look to upgrade my Amp in due course. :)

Off to the shop sometime next week i think.
 
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Might be a good idea to keep the grills in place to protect them. Similar thing happened me once. Tweeters were paper type so a bit of sticky tape was enough to take out most of damage.
 
SideWinder said:
(100% on the laptop, max bass/treble)
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badbob said:
Don't do that.
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jesus, max bass and treble :(, I agree, definitely don't do that, if thats how you like your music you would have been better off buying an Aiwa boom box with 'Bass Extreme' modes, I run my 602's with my bass/treble set to neutral and sounds more than fine, in-fact even at neutral sometimes the bass is more than needed.
 
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I also asked "James" about why my speakers seem to make a vibrating noise when i go 1/3 of the way round on the volume (100% on the laptop, max bass/treble)
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chances are, it's your laptop that is clipping the wave off. soft clipping on the amp wont do anything if the supposed line level source has already clipped the wave off.

firstly get rid off the dodgy bass/treb levels, then reduce the volume on the laptop to about 80% or something. If you want it louder, turn up the volume on the amp, not the laptop.
 
you have a very nice set of speakers, a decent amp - but your sourcing from your laptop?

buy a usb DAC, you wont believe your ears. If you are decent with solderign iron you could build one (kit form) for about £25 - 30. Alternatively they are about 100 - 200 for an entry level dac.
 
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NAD has a soft clipping feature, I presume the amp detects when it occurs and then reduces the volume.
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Nice - It's a shame more amps don't have this...
Adam W said:
you have a very nice set of speakers, a decent amp - but your sourcing from your laptop?

buy a usb DAC, you wont believe your ears. If you are decent with solderign iron you could build one (kit form) for about £25 - 30. Alternatively they are about 100 - 200 for an entry level dac.
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+1

Also consider an external USB soundcard. I think E-mu do a real nice one called E-MU 0404 USB which has good DAC inside.
 
Nice - It's a shame more amps don't have this...
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Audiophiles have commented it degrades the sound slightly, I've had my 60W and 100W amps at high volumes never toasted a tweeter so no need for it really. The only time I damaged a tweeter when I had a Yamaha AV amp, quite poor amp stages in those.
 
Adam W said:
buy a usb DAC, you wont believe your ears. If you are decent with solderign iron you could build one (kit form) for about £25 - 30. Alternatively they are about 100 - 200 for an entry level dac.
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I've been thinking about getting a usb dac for a while, theres quite a few to choose from in that price range, any you recommend in-particular ?, something that has a warmer analogue sound, possible ?,

anyone got any opinons of something like this http://www.audiophileproducts.com/fubar2 ?.
 
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fubars are ok, they are cheap at least.

go to the head-fi forums (www.head-fi.org).

They have a section dedicated to computer as source, often people talking about usb Dacs.

currenlty you are amplifying the utter rubbish your laptop is putting out. The dac would hopefully mean bit perfect audio reaching your analogue stage. it will be night and day.
 
another way round it, and my preferred route is to use an apple airport express.

I have bit perfect flacs, being streamed from winamp streaming wirelessly to the aiport express, which outputs an optical signal via tosling to my beresford mk6/3 dac (which is very highly regarded and only £95. this also means you wont have cables to and from your laptop.
 
Adam W said:
you have a very nice set of speakers, a decent amp - but your sourcing from your laptop?

buy a usb DAC, you wont believe your ears. If you are decent with solderign iron you could build one (kit form) for about £25 - 30. Alternatively they are about 100 - 200 for an entry level dac.
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Can you provide recommendations? :)
 
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