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Distortion Coming Out of External Speakers? Please Help?

Major Speaker Distortion, Can Someone Please Help?

  • One of my speakers of my computer's surround sound started giving mild distortion a while back. At first I thought it was because of the damaged cone it had, but only yesterday the distortion jumped to another speaker and is even more distorted than the previous. Im not much of a technical guy when it comes to this, so can someone slowly and simply guide me through the steps on how to solve this annoying problem please?

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    If you send too much power to your speaker, you risk damaging it. The cone of the speaker and the mechanical parts that make it move may break under the stress. Surprisingly, too little power can also damage your speaker — in fact, it's actually more common than damage caused by overpowering. When the volume is turned up and the amp doesn't have enough power, the signal becomes distorted, or "clipped." This distorted signal can cause parts of the speaker to overheat, warp and melt. Not good! You don't have to match speaker and amp wattages exactly. An amp with a higher output than the speaker's rating won't necessarily damage the speaker — just turn the amp down a bit if you hear distortion from the speaker and don't run the speaker at extremely loud volumes for lengthy periods. Likewise, you'll be OK with a lower powered amp if you keep the volume down and don't feed a distorted signal to the speaker. if you don't have or plan to add an amp to your speakers get ones that don't require more than about 35watts RMS each and have a higher sensitivity A speaker with a sensitivity rating that's 3 dB higher than another speaker's only needs half as much power to deliver the same amount of sound.

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If you send too much power to your speaker, you risk damaging it. The cone of the speaker and the mechanical parts that make it move may break under the stress. Surprisingly, too little power can also damage your speaker — in fact, it's actually more common than damage caused by overpowering. When the volume is turned up and the amp doesn't have enough power, the signal becomes distorted, or "clipped." This distorted signal can cause parts of the speaker to overheat, warp and melt. Not good! You don't have to match speaker and amp wattages exactly. An amp with a higher output than the speaker's rating won't necessarily damage the speaker — just turn the amp down a bit if you hear distortion from the speaker and don't run the speaker at extremely loud volumes for lengthy periods. Likewise, you'll be OK with a lower powered amp if you keep the volume down and don't feed a distorted signal to the speaker. if you don't have or plan to add an amp to your speakers get ones that don't require more than about 35watts RMS each and have a higher sensitivity A speaker with a sensitivity rating that's 3 dB higher than another speaker's only needs half as much power to deliver the same amount of sound.

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