21 yo and u think u screwed ur life ? Come on dude , u have the whole life in front of you . Get a job boosting or McDonalds , and there will be better times . Mebbe in 2 years you are again studying what u really want . Think in tomorrow , not in today . <| sep |> Fair enough ! Cheers brother ! <| sep |> Talon lacks a lot of damage in comparison to old Talon , 12180 always , the mobility and summoner cd isn ' t as needed as the damage to be honest . We already pretty mobile so it seems like overkill in comparison to extra damage and tiny bit of sustain we get . <| sep |> I ' ve done it the other way around , and the ping wasn ' t that bad for me . Maybe about 120150 , which to be honest isn ' t actually that crippling in XIV <| sep |> A clipped waveform is DC while it is clipped . This is no reasonable definition of DC that operates on time scales faster than a hundred milliseconds or so . Your clipped waveform that you ' re calling DC because it ' s constantly pushing current through the voice coil ? If it ' s not clipped , and the waveform just keeps rising above the level where it would have clipped before , it ' s also constantly pushing current through the voice coil . More of it , in fact , because the voltage is higher . There is absolutely no reasonable argument for why the clipped waveform , which contains less power , would be more damaging than the unclipped waveform . The only case in which that is true is if you are dealing with a speaker with a passive crossover , where a clipped waveform contains additional high frequency harmonics which turn into more power being sent to the upper passband of the crossover . It ' s very , very important to stress the fact that this is happening not because square waves are magical destroyers of speakers , but rather because it is a simple case of too much power being fed to a driver , and any signal with a similar amount of high frequency content will have exactly the same effect , not just square waves . In fact , most better amps will immediately shut down when they detect DC in the output . This is mostly a protection against the condition where an output transistor has failed short . Clipped transients are unlikely to cause enough of a DC offset to activate this protection . And Yes DC can be harmful to speakers , a voltage is a voltage is a voltage . For the bass driver which has not capacitors to protect it , that DC voltage is a direct high current connect to the DC resistance of the voice coils . And current is current . The exact same thing is true of AC waveforms . There is nothing special about DC current that makes it more harmful to a speaker than AC current . Further , with this extreme distortion caused by excess volume , you can extend the speakers to the point where they exit the voice coil gap and mechanically damage themselves . Aka overexcursion , one of the two things I specifically mentioned as one of the two things that can damage a speaker . Again , there is nothing unique about DC current that makes a speaker more susceptible to overexcursion , and in fact you are far more likely to overexcurse a speaker with an AC transient such as a kick drum hit than with any realistic DC offset . You are also far more likely to overexcurse a speaker with an amp with enough headroom to reproduce the transient without clipping . Then if you sustain the ridiculous volumes long enough , you well melt the voice coils . Aka exceeding the speaker ' s rated RMS power , which is the other thing I specifically mentioned as being damaging to a speaker . Note that there is nothing about this that makes it specific to amplifier clipping . A powerful amp can destroy a speaker without a single clip light . In fact it is far more likely to destroy that speaker since it has the ability to produce more power . Clipping just means the amp is not capable of producing any more power , it signifies a reduction in power over the level you are trying to command out of the system . with extreme clipping you are sustaining 45 v for a considerable accumulated time . And the same level without clipping is pushing even higher voltages across the voice coil . Again , clipping isn ' t the culprit here , it ' s the fact that you are asking too much from your system .