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    My setup is 2cdj 2000, nexus mixer, and 2 Pioneer S DJ08 Monitors i have it all connect to my computer and use the music of the computer. My question is ,is there a way of telling if i am playing my speakers too loud cause i dont want to break them. I know about going into the red on the mixer but these speakers come with a control for volume so has nothing to do with the mixer. Anything i can do or buy just had a house party a few weeks ago and some one kept asking for the volume to go higher and i did not want to just in case i broke them

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    Just keep the volume on the monitors at about half maybe, and adjust with the gain/master out on the mixer. If you use Traktor or what not there is a gain you can adjust in the software as well.

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    Yeah, what Kwal said...just don't crank the monitor volumes too high. Halfway should leave you with plenty of headroom to not blow them. You could probably go up to 3/4 and still not worry, but it may be song dependent at that point as well as staying out of the red on the mixer.

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    The manual suggests that the SDJ speakers have cutoff limiters built-in (page 11) so you should be fine as long as you keep your levels out of the red.
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    You can use a hard limiter and a RMS volt meter to set the limit. Everything else is just a guess.
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