We have a very
interesting question from Guillermo.
So sorry if I'm
pronouncing that wrong here. Yes.
Very nice surround sound system
with a blast and power and parecen
preamplifier. But more
importantly than audio audience nine ten
inch centre speakers. So as you had
these more than 20 years and he noticed that
he's losing some treble in
these speakers. So basically his
question is in the
parecen preamplifier, he can turn
up and down the bass
in the treble. So is it
possible to increase the
treble to kind of alleviate the missing
treble from the
speakers? And how much can he then
turn it up? First of all, it
really depends on how loud you're playing
because the treble, the
treble setting is basically an
increase in level at
that specific frequency
or basically above a
certain frequency. You are you are
increasing the tweeter
level. So if you're not playing loud,
then yes, it's not
an issue. If you typically
sometimes are playing loud,
then increasing the treble will
pull out more energy to the
speakers. So you might damage the
tree. This if you overdo
it. At the same time though,
the treble control increases mostly in the
highest frequencies and less in the
lower frequencies where you have the most
energy. So in the real world it's
typically not really an
issue. So. So you could do it
to kind of get that some of that
treble back. I would really suggest the
best solution here is to replace
the tweeters to make sure it sounds
the best, because the increase in
treble you're doing from the amplifier might
not be at the same
frequencies as where the tree actually has a
problem. One thing
that's very interesting in this
regard, though, is that when
people are worried about burning out
tweeters, sometimes it
happens that you're playing too loud and
and you're burning your
tweeters. So that's that's what he might be
afraid of here is it's safe to
turn up the treble. But actually what
typically burns out tweeters
is not too much treble. I know that
sounds a little bit weird, but
what typically happens is when you're
playing too loud, the
amplifier is clipping, and it's doing that
because it can't put out the
energy that you are requiring for the bass
driver. So you want to play a
lot of bass, you want to play loud and
and one point you reach the point
where the amplifier can play any louder,
so the amplifier will
clip. So instead of doing a nice
wave, it will clip the
top of the wave. And those edges
of that clipped wave is
actually at a very high frequency.
So now you're taking that bass
energy and putting it directly into the
tweeters. And then the
tweeters will burn up. So this is
how trailers are typically
damaged. It's not actually because of too much
energy in the high frequencies.
It's because of clipped energy in the low
frequencies that ends up in the
tweeter. That's where the problem is in
that sense. You know,
it's I wouldn't be too scared of
actually damaging the tweeters.
It's more a case of it will sound better
if you fully replace the triggers
instead.