Your explanation is still a little confusing: cables don't have a left and right; they have a positive and negative. It sounds like you attached both to positive (or negative) terminals of your amp. In other words, you've failed to create a circuit through which the AC can flow, hence the lack of sound. But given that nothing's flowing, it's unlikely that you're doing any damage to anything. (Except perhaps your pride, but we've all miswired something in our lives.)
Incorrect speaker cable connection can damage amp?
Dear Audiophile gurus,
I recently bought a tube integrated amplifier and
mistakenly I connected the speaker cables to the amp
outputs incorrectly; my amp has outputs for two sets of speakers as follows:
...............---- A -----.....................---- B -----
.set 1 ---> L..o....o..R.....................L..o....o..R
.set 2 ---> L..o....o..R.....................L..o....o..R
and when I first tried to hook things up I connected
for the Right speaker L to B1.R and R to B2.R and
for the Left speaker L to A1.L and R to A2.L
Can this cause any damage to my amplifier?!
Thank you in advance.
I recently bought a tube integrated amplifier and
mistakenly I connected the speaker cables to the amp
outputs incorrectly; my amp has outputs for two sets of speakers as follows:
...............---- A -----.....................---- B -----
.set 1 ---> L..o....o..R.....................L..o....o..R
.set 2 ---> L..o....o..R.....................L..o....o..R
and when I first tried to hook things up I connected
for the Right speaker L to B1.R and R to B2.R and
for the Left speaker L to A1.L and R to A2.L
Can this cause any damage to my amplifier?!
Thank you in advance.