Some clarification please:
My current understanding of clipping in an amplifier is that it is a hard limit related to the maximum amplitude of a signal that can be reproduced. If your amp has a maximum amplitude limit of 10 thats all it can produce. The more you try to push beyond this limit, the longer the signal is in clipping and the longer the signal is in clipping for. The transition from beautiful music to harsh distortion is a rapid one over a range of a few watts.

What the magazine implies is that clipping is a soft distortion of the top of the wave as opposed to a hard limit. Which view is correct?

Fred

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