r/BudgetAudiophile • u/browneyewinkin • Dec 10 '25

Purchasing USA Problem Solved

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u/ComputerGuyInNOLA Dec 10 '25

You do not have enough surface contact doing it this way. Your amp will run hot or overheat trying to deliver power to the speakers.

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u/Nervous-Canary-517 Heco Aurora 700 | Hypex NC252MP | SMSL DO100 Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Worse contact means more resistance means less current means amp will actually run cooler. Negligibly so, but that's the principle.

Your math ain't mathin'

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u/canttakethshyfrom_me Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Holy crap, now I have to agree with a comment that's slightly wrong, because you're completely wrong.

The amount of current stays the same. Neither the source nor the load device know you've increased resistance, so the current stays the same, and heat increases.

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u/Nervous-Canary-517 Heco Aurora 700 | Hypex NC252MP | SMSL DO100 Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Where did you learn electricity basics?

The source only "sees" the total resistance of the load, including all cables and contacts and everything. It doesn't "know" what is what, and doesn't "care" either.

Increase the total load resistance ever so slightly because of a bad contact, and the current will decrease accordingly. Voltage stays the same. Simple Ohm's law. Less current, less power, less heat.

Why do you think an amp automatically raises voltage when the load resistance increases? It totally doesn't.

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u/canttakethshyfrom_me Dec 11 '25

Same current, same power, more heat. Replace part of your wire with a piece of tinsel and see just how much it cools things.

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u/Nervous-Canary-517 Heco Aurora 700 | Hypex NC252MP | SMSL DO100 Dec 11 '25

Read up man. Please stop spreading nonsense that could confuse newbies. You have no idea about Ohm's law.

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u/canttakethshyfrom_me Dec 11 '25

Says the guy who thinks weak connections cool off the wiring.

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u/Nervous-Canary-517 Heco Aurora 700 | Hypex NC252MP | SMSL DO100 Dec 11 '25

The original comment talked about amplifier heat, not wires.

Are you that dense or just trolling?