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Lewguitar
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Re: Speakers: my suggestions for the ultimate in tone
I haven't done enough comparing to really say that I hear a diff between a 8 ohm speaker and a 16 ohm speaker. I hear a big diff in tone when an amp that wants to see a 8 ohm load is given a 16 ohm speaker load: the tone is weaker and grainier if there's a mismatch like that. But that's a differant thing.
Vintage Fender amps like a Vibrolux-Reverb sound best with the 4 ohm load of two 8 ohm speakers connected in parallel for a total of 4 ohms.
Plugging another 4 ohm load into the external speaker doesn't change what the amp wants to see. The total speaker load with a total of four 8 ohm speakers would be 2 ohms...but the amp will put out a little less power and the tone will be a little weaker. However, because four speakers have twice the surface area of two you might still like the tone of four speakers better and hear an increase in volume, even though the impedence is not what the amp wants to see.
I don't know if the DR. Z has multiple output transformer taps or not...if it did, like some Marshalls do, you'd see a switch on the back that would allow you to switch from 4 ohms, 8 ohms and maybe 16 ohms.
Lew
Luke Duke said:
I haven't done enough comparing to really say that I hear a diff between a 8 ohm speaker and a 16 ohm speaker. I hear a big diff in tone when an amp that wants to see a 8 ohm load is given a 16 ohm speaker load: the tone is weaker and grainier if there's a mismatch like that. But that's a differant thing.
Vintage Fender amps like a Vibrolux-Reverb sound best with the 4 ohm load of two 8 ohm speakers connected in parallel for a total of 4 ohms.
Plugging another 4 ohm load into the external speaker doesn't change what the amp wants to see. The total speaker load with a total of four 8 ohm speakers would be 2 ohms...but the amp will put out a little less power and the tone will be a little weaker. However, because four speakers have twice the surface area of two you might still like the tone of four speakers better and hear an increase in volume, even though the impedence is not what the amp wants to see.
I don't know if the DR. Z has multiple output transformer taps or not...if it did, like some Marshalls do, you'd see a switch on the back that would allow you to switch from 4 ohms, 8 ohms and maybe 16 ohms.
Lew
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