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@Wegi76
Firstly, yeah, that does sound it would mess up your speaker.
The kid is a problem regardless of the idea of speakers biting the dust, you need to rectify this on your own by removing access to such things away from children. It wouldn't be his fault, and would obviously be yours (goes without saying), so even if you have to build a castle around it, it's something you need to simply do. The RME has a volume lock feature where you could limit output. To what volume level at what gain for your ideal aspiration and contextual use-case? I have no idea, you would need to measure that output at the A90's output yourself.
Also, if they're active speakers, why not digitally have them connected with a source? That will bypass the hit you take doing the AD conversion from the preamp to the active speaker which then also needs to do a DA conversion. On top of allowing your son to play with the volume knob of the A90 all day.
As far as practical advice with your son in the picture. Have the D90 maxxed out volume on lowest gain (unless the kid has access to gain as well somehow, then start with highest gain), and use volume control of the RME DAC while listening to some content. Take up the volume of the RME until you hit a limit that would be loud enough to where the kids' ears (or yours) would be a worry before the lesser worry of drivers frying (at least I hope drivers are a lesser cause of concern than you or your sons ears). Once that upper limit is found, just lock it in there, and forget about it until the kid grows up or something.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help. But it's tricky without measuring the output yourself and/or removing the child from equation.
Firstly, yeah, that does sound it would mess up your speaker.
The kid is a problem regardless of the idea of speakers biting the dust, you need to rectify this on your own by removing access to such things away from children. It wouldn't be his fault, and would obviously be yours (goes without saying), so even if you have to build a castle around it, it's something you need to simply do. The RME has a volume lock feature where you could limit output. To what volume level at what gain for your ideal aspiration and contextual use-case? I have no idea, you would need to measure that output at the A90's output yourself.
Also, if they're active speakers, why not digitally have them connected with a source? That will bypass the hit you take doing the AD conversion from the preamp to the active speaker which then also needs to do a DA conversion. On top of allowing your son to play with the volume knob of the A90 all day.
As far as practical advice with your son in the picture. Have the D90 maxxed out volume on lowest gain (unless the kid has access to gain as well somehow, then start with highest gain), and use volume control of the RME DAC while listening to some content. Take up the volume of the RME until you hit a limit that would be loud enough to where the kids' ears (or yours) would be a worry before the lesser worry of drivers frying (at least I hope drivers are a lesser cause of concern than you or your sons ears). Once that upper limit is found, just lock it in there, and forget about it until the kid grows up or something.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help. But it's tricky without measuring the output yourself and/or removing the child from equation.