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Aren't all speakers AC coupled? Should be filtered out by somthing as simple as a blocking capacitor no?



Not necessarily. The amplifiers sometimes are though.

In a normal 2 or 3 way speaker cabinet, you'll have an analog crossover which consists of something like a capacitor in series with the tweeter (high pass filter), and an inductor in series with the woofer (low pass filter).

In that case, the tweeter is protected from DC, but the woofer isn't.


Very cool thank you!


Yes, it's unlikely to cause problems in any real-world setup, but it's theoretically possible :P I've edited my original comment to clarify that it won't always be the case.


Signal that can damage hardware is something that used to be discussed with CRT monitors back in those ancient times, and rumours existed of a virus that played on this.

Having damaging audio signal is a new one for me.




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