I have 2 10 inch JL w1v2's with a Pheonix Gold M series two-channel amp. The system sounds great but if I turn up the db settings on the amp a higher, the two clip lights on the amp would go on. Is this good or bad?

 

That all depends on if you would like to those JL's to destroy themselves, or live a long time (Clipping is bad, it's a result of too much signal) turn down your gain

 

bad, very bad.

They should 'flash' if anything. I am not sure but I think those are input clipping lights so you can set your gains. Correctly.

 

Yea if I set the gains on the amp too high, the clip lights would come on everytime the bass hits. Once I turned it down a bit the lights wouldn't come on. I would like more bass but I wouldn't want to blow my speakers again. The stock head unit sucks. Darn I should of just gotten w3's instead.

 

Clipping is very very VERY bad.

Rather than disipate the electrical energy as speaker cone motion the clipped signal disipates that peak energy as heat. Heat - the stuff that melts speaker coils. Clipping also sounds like shat. A perfect sine wave has energy in the priniciple frequency, a clipped signals has harmonics that go way up the spectrum - thes is the harshness that we here as clipped music.

Way too many people drive their systems into clipping. I just assume that these people are deaf and are just feeling the base notes.