it wasn't the speakers or the amp it was crappy Audioquest junk.
Not only do they just lie and make up science. They make super costly stuff with likely little diff form less costly quality interconnect/cables - but i've find they actively make stuff worse.
I disconnect anything with the pointless battery pack crap on it too. They almost always add extra hum/noise to my loop.
(I never really drank the coolaid.. but "what if am i'm missing something" does eat in my brain. I have $1000s of of cables... hell i have a lot of cables that are $1000 each (yes, i'm a dummy) - zero diff.
The reason the amps were going into over volt was because of the AQ speaker cables (i testing two of them. Robinhood and rocket 88 - both of them did it.)
You know what doesn't? Bluejeans... *sigh*
Blue jean cables are great but aren't pretty .. and jewelry is important
Wireworld cables speaks to me for some reason and don't make things worse at least
- but i'm sick of spending this much on speaker cable when the BJ ones do the job.
also FU power conditioner ... i know you aren't doing jack and just taking up space!
ok.. sorry about the rant!