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Incorrect speaker cable connection can damage amp?

Dear Audiophile gurus,

I recently bought a tube integrated amplifier and
mistakenly I connected the speaker cables to the amp
outputs incorrectly; my amp has outputs for two sets of speakers as follows:
...............---- A -----.....................---- B -----
.set 1 ---> L..o....o..R.....................L..o....o..R
.set 2 ---> L..o....o..R.....................L..o....o..R

and when I first tried to hook things up I connected
for the Right speaker L to B1.R and R to B2.R and
for the Left speaker L to A1.L and R to A2.L

Can this cause any damage to my amplifier?!

Thank you in advance.
diavlos
diavlos OP
2 posts
 
Folks, I think I did not explain things well.

Instead of thinking things horizontally, I thought of them
vertically, so the two ends of each speaker spanned both the
set1 and set2 amplifier speaker connectors! Is this better now?! That is why there was no sound to be heard!
The L of a speaker cable was connect to the L of set1, but
the R of the same speaker cable was connected to the L of set2! Sorry, but that is how things were laid out on my solid state amp!

Thanks again
bomarc
501 posts
 
Your explanation is still a little confusing: cables don't have a left and right; they have a positive and negative. It sounds like you attached both to positive (or negative) terminals of your amp. In other words, you've failed to create a circuit through which the AC can flow, hence the lack of sound. But given that nothing's flowing, it's unlikely that you're doing any damage to anything. (Except perhaps your pride, but we've all miswired something in our lives.)
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2001impala
102 posts
 
No, you didn't damage you amp. Unless you have a connection from b+ to b- (between the positive to the negative) no current can flow, hence the lack of sound.
Thus, it can have no effect on your amp.

Damon
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