leotis > Thank you for the very interesting answer!
Blindjim > No problem. I’d keep them on the higher taps for a while, listen, closely. That is of course once the amp has settled in on that portion of the circuit. A few days more or less should suffice. .
Another analogy for incorrect IMP matching of amps to spkrs could be like driving a 5 speed vehicle only in 2nd gear. It will take off and it will run but overall performance will suffer.
Another will likely be able to definitely say this more accurately, but I tend to think the taps on tformer output amps were designed to run in a range, not just one specific imp load. So I’m figuring the 8 ohm tap means about 8 ohms, and from above 4 to 8.
This is unless ther is a 6 ohm tap on the amp too. Then the range for the 8 tap diminishes to between 6 & 8 or above.
The 4 ohm tap is for that section of IMPs at or below 4 ohm loads.
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The only real worry is as said, clipping. Its when a driver is starved for power predominately. Usually it’s a tweeter. Ordinarily clipping occurs when running the spkrs at higher levels and the power a driver asks for can’t be provided appropriately or comes intermittedly. That’s when actual . damage to the loudspeaker can take place. It happened in a pr I had bought preowned. His INT did not have the power to satisfy those speaker’s demands and one of the four blew out. Quit working. The factory fixed it eventually. Once I paid for shipping and so forth.
Blindjim > No problem. I’d keep them on the higher taps for a while, listen, closely. That is of course once the amp has settled in on that portion of the circuit. A few days more or less should suffice. .
Another analogy for incorrect IMP matching of amps to spkrs could be like driving a 5 speed vehicle only in 2nd gear. It will take off and it will run but overall performance will suffer.
Another will likely be able to definitely say this more accurately, but I tend to think the taps on tformer output amps were designed to run in a range, not just one specific imp load. So I’m figuring the 8 ohm tap means about 8 ohms, and from above 4 to 8.
This is unless ther is a 6 ohm tap on the amp too. Then the range for the 8 tap diminishes to between 6 & 8 or above.
The 4 ohm tap is for that section of IMPs at or below 4 ohm loads.
Follow?
The only real worry is as said, clipping. Its when a driver is starved for power predominately. Usually it’s a tweeter. Ordinarily clipping occurs when running the spkrs at higher levels and the power a driver asks for can’t be provided appropriately or comes intermittedly. That’s when actual . damage to the loudspeaker can take place. It happened in a pr I had bought preowned. His INT did not have the power to satisfy those speaker’s demands and one of the four blew out. Quit working. The factory fixed it eventually. Once I paid for shipping and so forth.