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Samurai Shampoo

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Jul 2, 2017
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How are you guys doing?

I recently watched a YouTube video that had music playing in the background.
The music was quiet at first but in one scene it was extremely loud and distorted.

Even tho I had the volume on the lowest setting on my mac it was so loud that i had to mute the video.

I fear that my speakers got damaged because of that video. I have pretty good ears and now when I listen to music I feel like some high frequencies are annoying me. For example the hi hats on some songs seem to ˋstab´.

Now, I hope Im just paranoid and the mac speakers are okay but is there a chance that a YouTube video damages imac speakers?
I read that youtube normalizes audio to prevent distortion but I downloaded some videos, pulled them into a DAW and saw that they were clipping.

Too Long, Didn’t Read: Can clipping / distortion damage iMac speakers?

Thanks.
 

Mikael H

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Sep 3, 2014
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The music was quiet at first but in one scene it was extremely loud and distorted.

Even tho I had the volume on the lowest setting on my mac it was so loud that i had to mute the video.
Link to the vid you were listening to? I wanna trash my speakers too at their lowest setting...

(In other words: Did something break? Possibly. Will anybody believe an outlandish claim aimed at making it look like it was totally not your fault? No.)
 

Phil in ocala

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Jul 14, 2016
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Link to the vid you were listening to? I wanna trash my speakers too at their lowest setting...

(In other words: Did something break? Possibly. Will anybody believe an outlandish claim aimed at making it look like it was totally not your fault? No.)
By a few Bluetooth speakers on ebay...from China like I did...when they don't connect to the mac...you just Trash them simple.
 
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