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RE: How to raise the total resistance of a speaker

Saki,

"Is it possible to take a manufactured box speaker rated at 8 ohms and raise it to 10 , 12 , 14 or 16 ohms?"

My short answer is no. I don't know if you meant to restrict this to OTL amps, but I would answer your question a different way, and I think it is the other side of the coin of what Maxhifi said.

The Tanny Red is valued by tube guys, because it is 16ohms, which means it is three decibels more efficient, which means that your power requirement just got cut in half. Also the higher impedence load is easier for a vacuum tube to handle, so the two go together. People usually don't run SS into high imp. and they usually don't run tubes into low imp.

Jamie



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