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Does messing your EQ settings damage your headphones? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Successful-Arm106@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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I was messing with my EQ settings, putting +10 and +20 db on some ranges of frequencies to see how it would sound like, but the thing is that my amp (a humble Apple dongle) doesn't have enough power to drive them that loud, so it was likely clipping/distorting the sound. Can this have damage my headphones in any way?

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[–] DJGammaRabbit@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

"Likely clipping", you'd know.

I do +12 at 31hz, +9db at 8khz, -5dB gain. Even with say +9 at 31hz and +7 at 8khz, on all of my IEMs and headphones what they all have in common is that none of them distort at -5 gain, sometimes -3, 0db if it doesn't have bass, depends on the track.