Now I'm wondering...how do I tell what this thing
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R47RYPW
is actually capturing? The idea was to-in the absence of a storage oscilloscope-use the peak hold function to determine if an AVR is clipping.* But now I wonder how fast is it, is it really getting the peak of the peaks.
???
*by calculating the voltage rail from the all-channel power spec and comparing. If well below, not likely clipping. If well above, clipping. If near, gee try to borrow a storage scope...
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R47RYPW
is actually capturing? The idea was to-in the absence of a storage oscilloscope-use the peak hold function to determine if an AVR is clipping.* But now I wonder how fast is it, is it really getting the peak of the peaks.
???
*by calculating the voltage rail from the all-channel power spec and comparing. If well below, not likely clipping. If well above, clipping. If near, gee try to borrow a storage scope...
Or build something like that:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...age-and-current-detector.276985/#post-4523999
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...age-and-current-detector.276985/#post-4523999
"the manual is incomplete and poorly translated (annoyingly so)."
"Good DMM. Terrible user's manual. The user's manual was obviously written by someone for whom English is a second language. So bad could not figure out how to do simple measurements like resistance. Web site which is thsinde.com.cn ..no longer is available."
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R47RYPW
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Yes; or even simpler. A 1N400x diode and a 0.1uFd cap, plus maybe a 10r 1W resistor, to any cheap DMM, will "determine if an AVR is clipping." The 0.6V error is insignificant on typical 30V peaks; or can be fudged-in. Unless you only listen to male announcers, raw, peak is as good as peak-peak since most speech/music is near symmetrical to a dB.