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I know this has been brought up before and the search function didn`t exactly answer my question. I have a Avatar cab with 2 Eminence 8 ohm speakers wired up for 16 ohms. I was thinking of getting a combp amp that have speaker outs for a 8 ohm cab. Would I be damaging any thing running a 8 ohm amp into a 16 ohm cab? Does anyone have expeirenec with the Avatar cabs since I was thinking since it has 2 8 ohm speakers that it could be wired to produce 8 ohms. Hope I didn`t confuse anyone.

Generally, a 2:1 impedance mismatch isn't going to hurt anything. If the speaker out is for an 8 ohm extension cab (run along with the internal speaker), the mismatch won't even be 2:1.

You can't wire a pair of 8 ohm speakers to create an 8 ohm load.

i wouldent run an 8ohm (valve/tube) amp into a 16ohm cab, you're making the amp work twice as hard and could fry the transformer, solid state amps however are tougher and its safe to do this.

Thanks so much for the info