Weather warnings and advisories on television?

Aldo Decurtis: I'm looking for answers to my question. Not for an inexperienced individual to try to diagnose something they have no idea about. I'm a sound engineer, I set up audio equipment for concerts and events. I'm pretttttttttty sure I can handle a lil home theatre system. And yes, when the national weather service advisory interrupts normal broadcast at 20-30 decibels higher than normal listening volume, it most certainly CAN and WILL overpower a speaker and cause it to blow. Sooooo anyone wanna answer THE question or just give your amateur two worthless cents?...Show more

Zulema Baccam: if you are upset with how the EAS (emergency alert system) works, you should complain to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). They are the lead agency for implementing and setting technical standards as well as regulating television and cable systems. it doesn't matter whether your cable is digital or analog, the audio levels have a specific maximum. for example in! digital, there is no sound louder than 1111111111111111. for this to be 20-30 dB louder then program audio does not exceed 0000000001111111. That is an exceptionally low level, the fidelity of such a low range of working digits would be sub-telephone quality. The same is even more true for analog modulated audio because it would be near the noise floor of reception....Show more

Lynn Hollars: My daughter who is quite knowledgeable about electronics, says this:My advice would be to talk to the company you purchased the stereo from because a $6,000 stereo set up would not do that just because it had a warning come on. I would expect that possibly from a $100 speaker. If anything, the manufacturer of the speaker should be responsible for repairing it, if you can prove that you were not misusing the speaker by having it set higher than what would be normal usage and did not have it plugged into components that were incompatible with the speaker system.Wishing you well! ....Show more