Acoustic B200h with the Acoustic 810 cab?

[wshines1892]

I obviously know this would work, but I just want to know if anyone has any experience with this arrangement? I know the head runs 200 watts at 4 ohms, and the cab is 8 ohm or something like that? It's advertised with the 600 watt head, but that's 600 at 2 ohm, which makes me think I could push it with the 200 watt at 4ohm head. I only have the head's volume and gain set at about a quarter and it's plenty loud through the 115, and I've used it through a 8 ohm 400 watt 410 cab before with the same settings and it's plenty loud.

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Originally Posted by wshines1892

I obviously know this would work, but I just want to know if anyone has any experience with this arrangement? I know the head runs 200 watts at 4 ohms, and the cab is 8 ohm or something like that? It's advertised with the 600 watt head, but that's 600 at 2 ohm, which makes me think I could push it with the 200 watt at 4ohm head. I only have the head's volume and gain set at about a quarter and it's plenty loud through the 115, and I've used it through a 8 ohm 400 watt 410 cab before with the same settings and it's plenty loud.

The G.C. Acoustic 810 is a 4 ohm cabinet.
The B200H head's 200 watts at 4 ohms should sound pretty good through the 810.
I've not played the B200H head into a 810 cab but I recently tried a B200H head into two G.C. Acoustic 115 cabinets...IMHO it sounded "very" good.

[MiniMoose234]

Would the 8x10 make the 200watts seem louder?+ Im so bad at amp tech. Really need to come in here more lol.

[wshines1892]

Well then, time to save up some cash for a new cab!

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Originally Posted by MiniMoose234

Would the 8x10 make the 200watts seem louder?+ Im so bad at amp tech. Really need to come in here more lol.

Yes sir, it should.
The more inches of speaker area your driving, the louder it will be perceived.
At the same wattage and if all things are equal:
310's will be louder than 210's...
410's will be louder than 310's...
610's will be louder than 410's...
810's will be louder than 610's...
Ect.

[SurferJoe46]

I have run my B-600H through all sorts of combinations of Acoustic cabinets - the 410, the 115 and the 810.

Each has it's own voice and ability to shove air at the audience - with the leaning to more air, obviously getting pushed by more cone square inches.

Now I know the B-600 has more Wattage and a lower total Ohms capacity - but I have always used the B-810 when I need to keep the horses flowing for an open field or pasture party.

When in doubt, I have run my B-450 with it's 210s and the B-810 cab and another B-410 cab all at the same time, plus the included 3 Horns and since it's all within the minimum Ohm rating for the amp, (2Ω) it sounds very loud and clean with no overheating at all. That gives me 14-10" drivers.

One thing you MAY have in the B-200H is the same three-speed cooling fan as both the B-450 or the B-600H have, and I have never gotten mine over second-speed with this 14-10 combo.

Although once in a very hot studio (over 100ºF inside) and just driving the B-410 and another pair of Peavey 15s with my B-600H, I got to third-gear once and just cut the bass EQ a little and it dropped to second gear and the rest of the evening went on without another incident at all.

I would bet that Acoustic has that same overheat protection in the B-200H as it does in both the B-450 and B-600H too.

Just listen for the fan to indicate if you're pushing it too hard or not.