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Cagri, If the distortion is really as much as a severely clipped amp and of the same type, it will possibly destroy the speakers. Difference is only the knowledge beforehand: is the distortion on your CD really caused by severe clipping. If an amp is clipping, you can be sure that it...

Cagri, Again: relax. Listening to a commercial CD will almost certainly not destroy your speakers. Now where I think you're wrong: I believe that you think that an amp can send a "full" signal (unclipped) to a speaker which sort of carries the distorted CD signal. Thus a distorted signal...

Cagri, You may assume that it's safe to play a CD if it's not you who cranks up the volume knob way to much. But here's the difficult theoretical part of the answer. IF someone would record a heavily distorted and clipped signal (and again: you may assume that they don't do that)...

There are many forms of distortion. One of them is clipping. This may also occur at the recording stage, so it may sound alike. But this is not very common. If it sounds like clipping it could be any stage of the amplification line. But the end-stage (power stage) is the mnost common one. Cees

It's possible to make sure (well, at least 99%) that it's the CD and not your amp: turn the volume down to a very low level. Listen with your ears close to the speaker (if necessary). If it's still there, it's not the amp clipping. BTW, the reason I said "99%" and not "100" lies in the fact...