Originally Posted by foreigneRS
i've got a little Philips MCB240 micro 'hifi' for the kitchen with weedy little speakers.
i've also got a large pair of floor standing cerwin vega speakers, similar to these
if i want to plug these in to the philips to crank it up a bit, at a party for instance, can i do any damage? i realise that the amplifier of the philips is only very weedy, so what will happen? will they just not go loud, or will it be distorted at even low volume levels?
don't want to even try it if there's a risk of damage to either component, so any advice would be much appreciated.
thanks, nick
Nick, I dont advise it.
The Phillips MCB240 (I am guessing) is quite low power, and the Cerwin Vega's are quite efficient BUT like most USA loudspeakers they like lots of power.
Problem is, at a party with the high background noise you will be running the Phillips amp very hard - prob into clipping for most of the evening.
The clipping (or distorted waveform) can actually do a lot more damage to the Vega's than a more powerfull amplifer that is used with care.............So the Phillips unit is quite likely to damage/blow-up the Vega's tweeters.
Try and borrow an amplifier that will drive the Vega's properly, and feed it's input from the Phillips units TAPE OUT sockets (if it has these).......Or, better still borrow a CD player to use with the more powerfull amp & Vega's combo for the party