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Connecting Speaker Cables to Dynaco ST-70

My spade speaker cable connectors are large and without a lot of effort (which I do) the positive (non-ground) connector will touch both the 4 and 8 ohm taps on the Dynaco.  Will it hurt anything sound or equipment wise if the speaker connector touches both amp taps?
Thanks in advance.
George
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Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.
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I wouldn't allow that to happen, George.  You would be putting a zero ohm load across a significant fraction of the output transformer's secondary (output side) winding.  I would certainly expect that to affect sonics, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also resulted in damage, eventually if not sooner.

Best regards,
-- Al
 
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Thanks a million Al.  I will of course take your advice and ensure that only one tap is touching per side.  What a pain the large speaker connectors can be when working with older amps.  Live and learn. 
George
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Search the following phrase on Ebay and you will find small spade to binding post/banana adaptors.

"Spade Banana Fork plug Mcintosh Amp Eico tube Adapters MC30 MC60 MC275"

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