Too strong a signal can surpass what the cones inside the speaker drivers can handle, causing audio clipping and distortion. The cause of distortion from high volumes can also be mechanical.

The audio signal peaks are lopped off, hence the term "clipping," and the resulting sound is called harmonic distortion. Clipping is generally to be avoided, except when distortion is desired (as in ...

The problem is complicated by digital equipment that normally references all audio levels to the maximum signal level before clipping, which is identified as 0dBFS (zero dB full-scale). Therefore, all ...

Those go to a circuit board he designed which modulates the carrier with the audio signal using a single transistor and then sends the result out the ultrasonic transmitter.

Even with 16-bit audio CDs, such a scenario would require extensive signal amplification, which would likely blow out speakers and eardrums when the audio returned to nominal levels (Table 2). You may ...

Diodes has introduced a 10+10W stereo Class-D audio amplifier with an anti-clipping circuit to avoid distortion at high volume settings and output spectrum-spreading to improve EMC. Called PAM8106, ...

This reduces the dynamic range of the audio – ie the difference between the loudest parts and the quietest parts – and as a result can make the overall level sound louder, since you can raise the ...