Lugged my second 4x12 into my rehearsal space today and hooked it up. Amp is an EVH 5153, early serial. Forgot to switch the output selector over from 16 to 8. Played for 10 - 15 minutes or so before auddenly realising my mistake. Switch the amp off, set it to 8 ohm out, turned back on. Played for another hour. Output tranny seems fine - no smoke, no smell, no horrifyingly loud silence. Guess I dodged a potentially very expensive bullet.
My only questions is... why? Conventional wisdom says you can connect a speaker load with higher impedance than the output and you'll be fine (I've tried it before - there's some tone suck but that's pretty much it) but shouldn't connect a lower load to the amp lest you'll send it to amp heaven.
My only questions is... why? Conventional wisdom says you can connect a speaker load with higher impedance than the output and you'll be fine (I've tried it before - there's some tone suck but that's pretty much it) but shouldn't connect a lower load to the amp lest you'll send it to amp heaven.
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