Low power amps and speaker damage?

A usual rule is 12:00 High. Should be your max, “should”

Every amp is different with gain and so on.
most of my amps, preamps, speakers I’ve owned, usually the 12:00 o’clock high is my max, unless I hit early distortion, and quickly lower the volume!! At most get togethers, by myself, adding some old friends (Powers and Bushmills, etc) our ears and fingers tend to push the volume up a bit more (FIGHT THE TEMPTATION!!!)
Slowly volume up until it’s just good enough, unless you have a concert array of line source speakers hanging from your ceilings,
Go easy on your gear. Nothing worse than waking up and hearing missing midrange from a right speaker, or the crackling from your left tweeter!





There is a small red line on my pre faceplate, which tells me and the wife (stop here) the wife will never go loud anyway, as she don’t know how to use my stereo  ;)

Anyone thinks low power damages speakers try and blow anything with an iPod. Audiophiles. When they aren’t overthinking, they’re over simplifying.

A usual rule is 12:00 High

that is an extremely coarse, rough rule of thumb... almost useless, as between 2 components the output capability of one and the input sensitivity of the other, and relative impedance characteristics dictate how far the volume control on the driving unit would be set for proper volume

Beyond extremely coarse. There is nothing in all of audio less significant than the number the volume control points at. Anyone thinks it matters please study carefully the following documentary video clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc

The simple truth is if you're not driving the lower powered amp to distortion, you will destroy nothing.