Re: full stack advise

jh wrote:

hi adam,
the change of sound with a 4ohm cab in respect to the same cab wired to 16ohms is IMHO marginable if any. Some guys promote that the OT of a tube amp "couples" better to the speakers because the full winding (=16 ohms) is used. I have to realize this yet.
A 4ohm cab is said to have a slightly (IMHO also almost unrecognizably) improvement in the bass frequencies.

If you rewire to 4ohm you loose the possibility to run both cabiets in parallel.
IMO you'd be better with this solution:
leave the cab at 16 ohms for your peavey, don't use it (alone) with the musicman this way.
Hook up both cabs @16ohms parallel (=8ohms) with the musicman or the peavey (@8ohms). If you can't slave though one cab, build a parallel box with three jacks - all tips connected, all sleeves connected as a "slave box" and hook up both cabs.
If you really intend to use the 1960 with the musicman, rewire it, but don't use them in tandem.


short answer: IMHO you won't gain anything due to the change to 4 ohms


regards

Jochen


thanks for the advise. i was more concerned with losing something rather than gaining anything when lowering the ohms. i'm in this situation cuz the music man head only runs at 4 and 8ohms. I don't have the peavey cab yet, I was thinking of buying it cuz i was afraid i'd lose sound quality by lowering the ohms on my marshall. from your input, i'm gonna rewire my marshall down to 4ohms so I can run either amp through it, and wait to buy another cab when i find the peavey cab w/ celestion g12k-85s (the cab that sold with the vtm-120) instead of settling for the sheffield speakers..
in answer to yer other question, the marshall cab only has one input, but both my amps have atleast two speaker outputs, so i won't have to build that box u where writing about when i do decide to get a second cabinet.

thanks again,
-adam
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