Is it safe to turn the Volume all the way up?

hi, is it safe to turn the volume all the way up on Itunes, and have my IMAC volume all the way up as well?
The thing is, I never noticed any distortion coming from the speakers on my computer until I recently imported a smashing pumpkins song. And well, for some reason i can hear a slight "rumble" Distortion on the bass end of things.
I thought maybe its just the way it was recorded, you know with distortion, lol.
But , ive also noticed it on a Sigur ros song as well.
On any of these songs if you turn the volume very , very low and listen carefully you can still hear the distortion.
So I might have answered my own question regerding the distortion, but then again
what about turning the volume completetly up on an imac.
Is it under warrnaty , if im just playing mp3s thru itunes oon my internal speakers?

If you only hear the odd sound on a couple of songs, I doubt your speakers are damaged.
Songs are recorded in different ways. Some have distortion purposely. By playing these types of recordings too loudly, I would imagine it would be bad on your speakers.
Common sense dictates if turning it up sounds bad or seems to be stressing the speakers, it shouldn't be played that loud. The range of the volume control is there to compensate for different recording levels, not only to show you how far you can turn the knob.

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