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Default 6 ohm amp driving 4 ohm speaker ?

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:09:55 GMT, "Jack"
wrote:

Since the source impedance is near zero - That's exactly what will happen.
The 4 ohm speakers will draw 6 amps from the amplifier and overload it by
50% which it may or may not survive.


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Please bottom post.

Well, yeah, if he's putting a CW signal on the input and cranking
the amp up to 11, but that wasn't the point. The point was that
audio amps aren't designed to provide a power match to the load.


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JF