Hey yall,
I'm looking around for a cab to pair with my amp (Darkglass Microtubes 900). I'm looking at this David Eden D610 XLT. According to the seller, it can be run at 4, 6 and 8 ohms. Everything I've been looking at says (at 6ohms) the cab is 1050W. I'm wondering, if I run it with my Darkglass head, am I going to blow anything? I just got this head and I really don't want to wreck it by trying to power something too big... Any advice would help. Thanks!
So here's the story with the Eden D610XLT. It is indeed a 6Ω cab and you will have no trouble at all with it in any SS amp that will handle that as a minimum load. Most amps will have a minimum load of 4Ω and some a minimum load of 2Ω. With solid state amps it's safe to run any single higher ohm rated cab than the minimum Ohms load rating on the amp. When you start adding more cabs is where you run into problems if you are not careful. So your class D Darkglass Microtubes 900 will be able to run it with no problem.
The deal with a 6Ω cab vs a 4Ω cab is that a 4Ω load allows your amp to deliver its 900-watts. With a 6Ω load it won't deliver all of that 900-watts. Will "probably" deliver up to about 600 to 700-watts (NOTE***I see @Wasnex worked it out at 600-watts). However, besides the watts being used, the other thing that defines the actual sound pressure level (SPL) of your guy is the amount of speaker space pushing the air. The upshot of that is that if you are currently using a 410 cab, this 610 cab with the extra two speakers will be louder, even with just 600-watts, because of the extra speakers pushing more air.
This is one of the cabs that Eden made that could safely be used with the early WT800's that put out 800-watts bridged into 8Ω. David Nordschow (aka: David Eden) confirmed that this cab could be safely run with those WT800A amps bridged and the amp would put out 1,000 watts into that 6Ω load. He said that was about the perfect match for that WT610XLT. Note that the D610XLT version had a handling power of 1,050 watts and the later D610XST version was 1500-watts. Lane Baldwin, who was the artist rep for Eden and also ran the Eden forum until ~2010, ran two of those D610XLT cabs for years, each with their own WT800A driving them and had no problems. He later switched to David's DNS cabs after he joined David at DNA.
I would recommend taking a flashlight though and carefully inspecting the cones of those speakers for creases. Also take a good look at the surrounds. These are great cabs and really durable but buying a cab with high handling power like this used, you really need to check carefully to make sure it hasn't been abused. The speakers used in it were the Eden EC-1060XL, same as the speakers used in the D410XLT.
After Marshall bought Eden on December 31, 2011 they changed the speaker numbers and only listed the speakers for the D610XTS, which used much different speakers. The Marshall/Eden speaker numbers for them are the SPKR-7001 for the 4Ω speakers and SPKR-7002 for the 8Ω speakers, but I'm not sure which ohm speakers are used in that D610XLT. I do recall that they were wired so each speaker got the same amount of power because some other 610's didn't and kept having the two with that higher power delivery and often blew out them prematurely back then. I believe Eden wired them in pairs in series and then wired the pairs in parallel but not sure. The original EC-1060XL speakers were available in 4Ω, 8Ω, and 16Ω, so you'd have to check to see what ones were used in that particular cab if any of them are bad.
