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This is pretty sound advice. All speakers change impedance as they produce sound depending on the frequency they're at and the quality of the crossover. Your amp will dynamically change the load output as well. If this gets to be too dynamic and the power supply cannot keep up, you might burn it up.

However, most receivers are capable of handling this dynamic impedance. If you're trying to mis-match impedance with 8,6, or 4 ohm speakers all in an odd combination, you will then very likely cause problems. I have run a 4 ohm center, 6 ohm L&R, and 6 ohm rears on my cheap Yamaha receiver. It ran it just fine. My receiver actually has a setting to change its output impedance to match 6 ohm speakers. I used that setting and everything was fine. For a $300 receiver, this is a nice feature. I would look into your system and see if you have a similar setting.

*EDIT* After seeing that pic, are those small speakers the ones you are running? That will not be a problem at all. Just make sure you don't give them too much volume as you could blow the tweeter with too much power. Tiny speakers like that will not put too much load on the amp that would damage it. However, the amp could possibly put out too much power if you crank it too high. I wouldn't worry about the impedance numbers here.

Someone said this and I just wonder if this is true that my JBL Control 1 speakers that are 4 ohms will be totaly ok to use on a normal 8-16 ohms Sony receiver. Basicly this is the pic I showed.

Basicly you can see my receiver and 5 disk CD changer and also my left speaker but not the right. I use my stereo system as my computer speakers mainly. You can see part of my Sony notebook on the lower right of the pic. So these speakers are compact. They have a 5.25" woofer and it's a 2-way speaker system. If you just measure the moving parts then it's just 4in woofer. The tweeters are 3/4" and they are Polycarbonate dome tweeters.


hmm strange somereason my pic won't show even it says it's uploaded.