I recently snagged a copy of the FABULOUS (yes, I'm straight) single Monster Magnet - Space Lord.

I can't help but play it volume level 39 (level 40 would just be ridiculous you know).

Am I going to blow things up (besides my ear drums)?

 

how do u play music at 39? 15 is loud enough and thats loud!

 

You blow speakers when you try to push the amplifiers harder than their capacity. An amplifiers job is to convert Direct Current (DC) to Alternating Current (AC). DC is bad fo speakers and it is what will cause them to blow. When you turn up an amp higher than it's capacity, the amp will automatically start churning out DC and that's when you start to hear static/distortion coming out of the speakers, if you try to push the amps even more so that only DC is coming out of the amps, the speakers will blow.
Understand?
good

 

Does that depend at all on how high the "volume" setting is, or just on how LOUD the emitted sound is?
I mean like, some of the stuff I listen to (spoken stuff, and old classical music cassette tapes) is recorded very soft, and I literally have to turn it up full (40) to hear it, but the decibel level that comes out isn't very high.

 

You're kidding....right?

 

Additionally....
A blown speaker occurs when the voice coil (a copper wire spun around a little paper cylinder, in most cases).

If the speakers are matched correctly and not over-worked by the amp, then time blows speakers, else, people pushing too much on the speakers with volume blows speakers.

Also important to note, distortion doesn't necessary blow a speaker. Distortion can simply be the inability of the speaker to quickly reproduce the sound, or rather the vibration. Distortion can also be a lack of the amp to push a sound correctly, called damping factor (the ability of the amp to push and stop the speaker); look it up.

 

Nice avatar....

 

What blows speakers?
A speaker hoochie-mamma, I presume.

 

Do you drive with your head 1 inch away from the tweeter by any chance??? I can't even hear any music when the volume is set at 15 when drivig with the windows down!

 

Are you talking about intermodulation or harmonic distortion?

 

Im serious. It shows 15 on the volume indicator. Bass and treble settings in the middle and the car is vibrating. My whole neighborhood can hear the car w/ all the windows open on volume level 19+. I have gotten complaints from the neighbors because I was playing at volume 19 before.

Maybe mine radio volume is set differently

 

15 may sound loud if your playing a cd and not moving, or driving reallly slow. But once youa re driving fast or have windows down you can barely hear 15.

With the radio on even 30 isnt loud enough.

 

One of the stations I listen to KCBS (news station) on volume 10 w/ the bass and treble at 1/4. Thats on the freeway w/ maybe my window and the passenger window 1/4 way down.

I also listen to dance/trance stations, R&B, pop stations w/ bass and treble a lil over 50%.
15 w/ windows down is still loud.

15 is really loud in my car. I can just imagine it at 30+

 

I too get complaints from my neighbors with my volume at 20. She claims that things are falling off the walls.

I think their just old crabby people that just like to complain.

I personlly listen to music from 15- 35 depending on the type of music and if my windows are down. I don't hear any distortion and both bass and treble are at +1.