Marshall Amp Forum - View Single Post - Pros and Cons of using 4ohm vs. 8ohm vs 16ohm outputs?

Doomhawk · 10-31-2008, 10:29 AM

you know i had a bunch of friends that always wired their cabs to 4 ohms. they always said it was more ballsy. i never heard a REAL difference. its just that 4ohms would be guitar signals - path of least resistance to the speakers. but if you like to hook up more than one cab to you rig i would always go with the highest resistance 16ohms. because if you had a 4ohm cab and wanted to hook up another. well it would be hard to find another 4 ohm guitar cab just laying around. and your amp doesn't have a 2 ohm tap.

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Doomhawk Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: New York Posts: 151	Re: Pros and Cons of using 4ohm vs. 8ohm vs 16ohm outputs? you know i had a bunch of friends that always wired their cabs to 4 ohms. they always said it was more ballsy. i never heard a REAL difference. its just that 4ohms would be guitar signals - path of least resistance to the speakers. but if you like to hook up more than one cab to you rig i would always go with the highest resistance 16ohms. because if you had a 4ohm cab and wanted to hook up another. well it would be hard to find another 4 ohm guitar cab just laying around. and your amp doesn't have a 2 ohm tap.