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In Reply to: Re: Question on impedance tabs vs. loudspeaker impedance posted by Ron Oehlert on September 16, 2004 at 08:36:46:
Huh? I thought the safe rule of thumb was to , for example have a 6ohm speaker it should be hooked to the 4ohm tap, not what you are explaining in having a 6ohm speak hooked to the 8ohm tap of amp?, I have never heard it the opposite way until now, please clarify Ron Oehlert... thanks
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I assumed a triode with various output taps was a tube amp, so I gave him the Tube rule of thumb. For a transistor amp the rule is reversed; speaker impedance should be equal or higher than that specified at amp output. The riddle is that he found 2 ohms to yield the best result.
My quad 12ls (6ohm) sound much better to me on my 8 ohm taps vs 4. Everything sounds better, from bass slam all the way up!
-rob,,, YOU ARE 100% RIGHT!!!! I tried my 8ohm tap, unfortunatly I could not do this before because I literally had to drill new holes in the back of the amp and Add binding posts(which after this post started I did it last night), which worked out perfectly, now I have access to both 4 & 8, and I thought it already sounded really good, but I picked up the 35 to 50hz range that was missing on the 4 ohm tap and the distortion is much lower as well as I am getting much Higher volume output at the same level from without turning it up!! Digital sounds much Smoother and fuller, the 4 ohm tap is now useless to me on this amp, but at least it is there...
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