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<blockquote data-quote="Silas Pradetto" data-source="post: 50374" data-attributes="member: 34">Re: Which limiters are good enough?Essentially nothing analog will work as a peak limiter to avoid blowing drivers, since to limit peaks the ability to &#039;look ahead&#039; in time is required. Something analog could work if you don&#039;t mind limiting early, losing headroom.Fortunately, the most common failure mode of drivers is not mechanical (due to peak power), it is thermal (due to long-term power). A regular compressor/limiter can&#039;t provide long-term power limiting, since they reduce the dynamic range of the signal (which increases average power) rather than reducing the overall signal (while preserving the dynamic range).In fact, I don&#039;t know of any processor that implements a decent average power limiter, except maybe the Lake stuff. The only average power limiters I know of are the ones in DSP amps, which doesn&#039;t apply to you.I hope others chime in with their ideas so both of us can learn about other limiting options.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silas Pradetto, post: 50374, member: 34"] Re: Which limiters are good enough? Essentially nothing analog will work as a peak limiter to avoid blowing drivers, since to limit peaks the ability to 'look ahead' in time is required. Something analog could work if you don't mind limiting early, losing headroom. Fortunately, the most common failure mode of drivers is not mechanical (due to peak power), it is thermal (due to long-term power). A regular compressor/limiter can't provide long-term power limiting, since they reduce the dynamic range of the signal (which increases average power) rather than reducing the overall signal (while preserving the dynamic range). In fact, I don't know of [I]any [/I]processor that implements a decent average power limiter, except maybe the Lake stuff. The only average power limiters I know of are the ones in DSP amps, which doesn't apply to you. I hope others chime in with their ideas so both of us can learn about other limiting options. [/QUOTE]

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