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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Beaver" data-source="post: 34590" data-attributes="member: 30">Re: D-FendANd here is where your crystal ball shatters.&nbsp; Let&#039;s assume you are correct (I have no reason to believe you are not correct) and loudspeakers are pretty much blowout proof.That is a good thing-or is it?&nbsp; At least now-there is a little bit of responsibility on the part of the user.&nbsp; But if you can just keep on &quot;dumping the power&quot; to the loudspeaker, the dynamic range will get even more squashed than it is now.&nbsp; Amps will be run into higher levels of clipping and what we call music will take on a whole different aspect-at least in the bottom parts of the market. At least now it comes out of peoples pockets when they screw up.Yes it could be good for the manufacturers to not have to deal with as many returns and such, but what it &quot;sounds like&quot;, may have a lot to be desired.Maybe we will be gone by then and it won&#039;t bother us.But if you think about it, the quality of music is going downhill as technology gets better.&nbsp; We used to only have live unamplified music.&nbsp; Can&#039;t get much better than that.&nbsp; Then we got records and some of the life was sucked out.&nbsp; Then came FM-more life getting sucked out, them MP3&#039;s even more live getting sucked out. and now if you drive a loudspeaker with a completely squashed signal and it not tear up-even more life getting sucked out.So maybe music styles will adapt, any maybe it is just me-but I still like dynamics in the sound.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ivan Beaver, post: 34590, member: 30"] Re: D-Fend ANd here is where your crystal ball shatters. Let's assume you are correct (I have no reason to believe you are not correct) and loudspeakers are pretty much blowout proof. That is a good thing-or is it? At least now-there is a little bit of responsibility on the part of the user. But if you can just keep on "dumping the power" to the loudspeaker, the dynamic range will get even more squashed than it is now. Amps will be run into higher levels of clipping and what we call music will take on a whole different aspect-at least in the bottom parts of the market. At least now it comes out of peoples pockets when they screw up. Yes it could be good for the manufacturers to not have to deal with as many returns and such, but what it "sounds like", may have a lot to be desired. Maybe we will be gone by then and it won't bother us. But if you think about it, the quality of music is going downhill as technology gets better. We used to only have live unamplified music. Can't get much better than that. Then we got records and some of the life was sucked out. Then came FM-more life getting sucked out, them MP3's even more live getting sucked out. and now if you drive a loudspeaker with a completely squashed signal and it not tear up-even more life getting sucked out. So maybe music styles will adapt, any maybe it is just me-but I still like dynamics in the sound. [/QUOTE]

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