Hooking up 8ohm speakers to a 4ohm amp?

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

besides giving less power is there any way this could ruin the amp...building my new comp set and alot of the speakers i like are either 8 or 6.5ohms i have a 2 channel autotek that does 130x2@4ohms

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[k_schutte 10+ year member]

You have a lot of posts to be asking such a newbee question... are you being a smart ass or do you seriously need to know?

and what speakers are you looking at that are 8ohm or 6.5ohm? 4ohm and 2ohm is like 95% of what I see in decent comps...

 

[Scotty2Naughty 10+ year member]

it wouldn't ruin anything, just get less power

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

You have a lot of posts to be asking such a newbee question... are you being a smart ass or do you seriously need to know?
and what speakers are you looking at that are 8ohm or 6.5ohm? 4ohm and 2ohm is like 95% of what I see in decent comps...

no joke every set of comps ive bought have been brand names at either 2 or 4 ohms....i kno it puts out less power but i ddint kno how much less honestly i mean i could wire them in parallel but then i loose my time alignment....just wondering bro haha my bad