Song Will Break Your MacBook’s Speakers
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> ”macOS uses a sophisticated speaker safety model that estimates speaker temperature to keep them safe. We need to figure out what is safe for Linux, so I was doing some tests from there, but (I now figured out) I was wildly overdriving the tweeters, which is how I killed them”
HW protection done in SW because designing a robust HW was expensive.