Can songs with bad sound quality damage speakers ?

[AudioGod]

Sorry for the stupid question but ...
But can badly recorded songs like some black metal or very old recordings damage your speakers ?

 

[Atmasphere]

No.

 

[treitz3]

If you crank them up beyond the limits of your speakers and clip them, yes. But that goes with well recorded selections as well. Otherwise, no.

Tom

 

[Robh3606]

No

Rob

 

[chuck]

But can badly recorded songs like some black metal or very old recordings damage your speakers ?

What recordings did you have in mind? I would like to test the hyphothesis. I play a lot of very old recordings and they sound great, no damage so far that I can detect.

 

[jeromelang]

If I play the Densen DeMag disc more than 5 times consecutively (moderately low level) my system will sound like they were taken straight out of their boxes first time - totally un-run-in. Takes a day or two of playing normal music to restore the system back to the run-in state.

Certain sound elements in recordings can indeed "change" how audio systems can sound.

 

[the sound of Tao]

Sometimes quite the opposite… Telarc’s famed audiophile version of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture often threatened my speakers… not because of the so called dynamics but because it made me want to punch my speaker drivers.