MySQL: Dramatically slower query execution if use LIMIT 1 instead of LIMIT 5

i noticed a dramatically decrease of speed if i LIMIT a query to 1 instead of 5.

SELECT he. *
FROM homematic_events he
WHERE he.homematic_devices_id =30
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1 

instead of

SELECT he. *
FROM homematic_events he
WHERE he.homematic_devices_id =30
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 5

My Table contains about 12,000,000 rows with the following structure:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `homematic_events` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `homematic_devices_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `address` char(16) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `interface_id` char(16) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `key` char(32) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `value` float(12,2) NOT NULL,
  `timestamp` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `timestamp` (`timestamp`),
  KEY `address` (`address`),
  KEY `key` (`key`),
  KEY `homematic_devices_id` (`homematic_devices_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=12637557 ;

These are explaination an speed measurment for LIMIT 5:

  mysql> EXPLAIN SELECT he. * FROM homematic_events he WHERE he.homematic_devices_id =30 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5;
  +----+-------------+-------+------+----------------------+----------------------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------------+
  | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys        | key                  | key_len | ref   | rows | Extra                       |
  +----+-------------+-------+------+----------------------+----------------------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------------+
  |  1 | SIMPLE      | he    | ref  | homematic_devices_id | homematic_devices_id | 5       | const | 4171 | Using where; Using filesort |
  +----+-------------+-------+------+----------------------+----------------------+---------+-------+------+-----------------------------+


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