Tonal difference between 4 and 16 Ohms?

[joeydude]

Re: Tonal difference between 4 and 16 Ohms?

umm, there is a huge difference between 16 and 4 ohms.. 16 will yield substaintally more lows...

just fwiw

i just tried out 16 as oposed to 4 on my setu and found it to be the oposite.


maby to many other circumstances affect tone for there to be a definitive rule on the matter....?

 

[brit84]

Re: Tonal difference between 4 and 16 Ohms?

@noth/other people who seem to know their ****

i have a messa boogie triple rectifier solo head(thats tubes in case ya dont know) running through a marshall 1960 cab

the head can do almost any friggin speaker setup(theres 14 examples in the manuel!) and has 4, 8 and 16 ohm outputs, the cab can do 16 or 4

what diference will it make sonically?

thanks

sooo, in other words youve asked exactly the same thing:eek13:

 

[devastone]

Re: Tonal difference between 4 and 16 Ohms?

It is the same question. The best way to answer it is to hook it up both ways and see what works best for you. It may make no noticeable difference, especially at lower levels. If you don't hear a huge difference between the two, don't freak out and think your hearing isn't refined enough, different people notice different things at different levels. I don't know if I would notice the difference. As far as which one is "better", neither, the one you like best is best for you, if you can't tell the difference don't worry about it, just play. If you spend hours A/B'ing the settings to see which one is best, you wasted your time, there isn't enough difference to matter if it takes that much work, the improvement in your hands from practicing that amount of time would make more difference (I'm preaching to myself here, I have a tendency to tinker too much sometimes too).