4ohm head to a 6ohm cab
 

Hi,

I know this has been thread'd to death and I'm sorry but can I run a 6ohm cabinet with a 4ohm head or will it damage the cab?

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your cab wouldn't care. most solid state amps wouldn't care either. a tube amp might care alot. more details, please. the biggest concern is with dropping the amp below its minimum. but a tube amp wants you to set it for the matching ohms, so i can't say what a tube amp set at 4 ohms would think. probably not recommended.

Yes you can and no it won't damage either by load impedance alone.

BTW the cab "loads" the amp.

what amp and cab? just for posterity.

hey, b-string, what about a tube amp set for 4 ohm? i'm curious about that.
btw are there 6 ohm cabs around?

thanks for the input guys

The cabinet is a Sunn 610L cabinet and the head is a Traynor Dynabass 400h

First understand a speaker's impedance is not a fixed value. The impedance should be preceded by "nominal".
While I would not recommend running a 8 ohm nominal load on a 4 ohm tap, the 6 ohm nominal is not that far off on the plate load curve and is probably actually less than a 6 ohm nominal unless some very special winding driver's were spec'd for that one cab line.

Ok, I get what your saying. Thanks for your wisdom B-string!

4 ohm minimum head with a 6 ohm cab = Perfectly fine

As long as we're talking solid state or hybrid, no problem.

Yes, the traynor dynabass head is hybrid so should be just fine?

No issues, except you might lose just a little wattage. Probably not enough to notice.

SS head will run it just fine. A tube power amp will run it just fine but it will eventually blow a power tube, not an if but a when.

And yes, there are 6 ohm cabs around, I have only seen 610's in 6 ohm but I imagine there are more. My old Markbass 610 was 6 ohm and I used to run it with an SVT-CL.

OP the dynabass is SS, so it will be fine. The dynabass might have pre-amp tubes but it is definitely not a tube amp.