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RE: Amp cutting out on more efficient speaker. Why?

Posted by Story on May 13, 2022 at 04:22:31:
you would think so as it doesn't seem to make any sense from the appearance of the specs. But the JBL's must have a more complex impedance curve with regard to frequency and it triggers the circuit when it reaches the power/value limitation. In other words it's not a straight line at 8ohms from 20 to 20,000 hz.

Somewhere in the curve it dips low, perhaps to 2 ohms and triggers the protection.