volume distortion/clipping

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Topic: volume distortion/clipping

Posted By: thebidsocram
Subject: volume distortion/clipping
Date Posted: April 26, 2017 at 5:20 PM

guys,
i have a head unit of pioneer deh-x8650bt. i do not have a oscilliscope device to identify the volume level where the output if it starts to distort or clipping. mybe have you guys had same headunit as mine that could tell me how much volume level. or naybe you have techniques to tell me how

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thebidsocram

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Posted By: DYohn
Date Posted: April 28, 2017 at 5:51 PM

Wear hearing protection. Play a 1000Hz test tone. Turn up the volume until you hear the tone change. This is clipping.

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