Ohms (no, i'm not meditating, though maybe that would help)

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Opposite. Too high resistance = reduced power to the speakers = clipping = damage.

As I understand it, the resistance in and of itself usually doesn't cause the problem, it is the resulting wattage that comes from mixing resistance. For example, an amp with a 100 watt per channel based on 8Ω would be putting out 200 watts at 4Ω. If the speaker is rated at 100 watts at 4Ω, you could be overdriving the speaker when playing at full volume which overheats the coil and does the damage (or just blows the whole damned driver). I could be wrong on this, but this is how I understand it.

However, with this configuration (8Ω amp output into 4Ω speaker), if you are keeping the volume level of the amp at 1/3-1/2 capacity maximum, the chances of a problem are greatly diminished. This is not a scientific statement, just a general statement from experience.

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

How about this one? It has a lot of nice features and flexibility

Not even this? Its MSRP is only $5,499.95