4 or 8 ohms?

[zachoff]

Depends on your head. Most heads only go down to a 4 Ohm load but both of mine go to 2 so I'd rather have 4 Ohm cabs. Most would rather have 8Ohm unless it's a single cab sorta setup like a 8x10 or something.

 

[Bass_Pounder]

Unless youre really cranking the amp , you could probably get away with one 8 ohm and one 4 ohm cab ,I think it works out to around a 3.2 ohm load on a 4 ohm minimum load amp . Id get the 210 at 8 ohms and if you wanted to add than another , then get 8 ohm as well , but if a 4 ohm came up at a price you couldnt refuse you could use it for larger gigs or on its own ... the best of both worlds .

Nope - it comes to 2.67 ohms, and can cause damage to amps rated at 4 ohms minimum.

 

[billfitzmaurice]

David Nordschow assured me personally that the DNS 410 will handle an honest 1,400 watts.

I hope you didn't get nailed by falling detritus from the flock of pigs that were passing overhead at the time.

 

[Munjibunga]

Unless youre really cranking the amp , you could probably get away with one 8 ohm and one 4 ohm cab ,I think it works out to around a 3.2 ohm load on a 4 ohm minimum load amp . Id get the 210 at 8 ohms and if you wanted to add than another , then get 8 ohm as well , but if a 4 ohm came up at a price you couldnt refuse you could use it for larger gigs or on its own ... the best of both worlds .

2.7 ohms, and it's a bad idea.

 

[Munjibunga]

I hope you didn't get nailed by falling detritus from the flock of pigs that were passing overhead at the time.

Now, now. It was at NAMM, and they don't allow pigs in the building (as far as I know).

 

[billfitzmaurice]

It was at NAMM, and they don't allow pigs in the building.

Odd. They obviously allow bulls.

 

[Munjibunga]

Odd. They obviously allow bulls.

Again, I'm just the messenger boy, reporting all I see and hear.

 

[Korladis]

A 4 ohm 2x10 just seems silly to me. With most amps, you couldn't add more speakers even if you wanted to. If you get an 8 ohm one, you can always get another one later. Two 2x10"s and a micro head would be very manageable. Especially if the 2x10 cabs had neo speakers.

 

[aquateen]

I have a 4 ohn 2x10 that I use with a Gk 400RB, which is rated at 125 watts with an 8 ohm load and 200 watts with a 4 ohm load. works for me, and that's what matters most to me.

 

[GrowlerBox]

So what about the guy who has already gone the two x 8 ohm cabs routeand just want one cab? Where's the benefit of 8 ohms then?

Also how are watts not = to volume? I'm surelying going to get more sound out of 600 watts than 375 , atleast maybe I won't but i won't be clipping to reach the same volume.

Increasing power (Watts) does increase volume, but the relationship is logarithmic. Moving from 375 W to 600 W will provide a little under 3 dB additional volume (i.e. you'll probably hear the difference if you're concentrating), assuming the voice coil of your speaker can handle the heat, which very many (read: pretty well all) will not. In order to double the volume output, 10 times the power output is required. A "useful" increase of 6 dB requires 4 times the power, and again, all of this assumes your speakers can handle it. It makes infinitely more sense to add speakers if more volume is required, hence the relative utility of 8 Ohm cabinets.

 

[Calaverasgrande]

^^^^indeed!

 

[Korladis]

Pretty much what GrowlerBox said. If you want to get louder, adding speakers is a more effective way of doing it than using the same amount of speakers but with different impedance to increase watts.