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<blockquote data-quote="Byrd2" data-source="post: 98515" data-attributes="member: 384"><p>As with everything - not always. Some amplifiers don't react well to having no load on the output.</p><p></p><p>Secondly some very nice new amps don't have any protection circuitry built in on the theory that this has a negative impact on the sound. Eg the Pass Labs amps. My own opinion is that no matter how great the sound is - it is ruined by the continual worry that there is about to be 60 Volts DC at one of the 20 Grand speakers connected to said amp. Further more there are 2 types of protection circuitry. There is DC protection circuitry as described above. This will activate when something has gone wrong with your amp and protect speakers. Then there is overload protection which will activate when the user does something silly like short out the outputs of the amp ;D, so that is meant to protect the amplifier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Byrd2, post: 98515, member: 384"] As with everything - not always. Some amplifiers don't react well to having no load on the output. Secondly some very nice new amps don't have any protection circuitry built in on the theory that this has a negative impact on the sound. Eg the Pass Labs amps. My own opinion is that no matter how great the sound is - it is ruined by the continual worry that there is about to be 60 Volts DC at one of the 20 Grand speakers connected to said amp. Further more there are 2 types of protection circuitry. There is DC protection circuitry as described above. This will activate when something has gone wrong with your amp and protect speakers. Then there is overload protection which will activate when the user does something silly like short out the outputs of the amp ;D, so that is meant to protect the amplifier. [/QUOTE]
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