[Shaman]

Well, I too have been torturing you guys with my "Which cab to buy" posts, but I finally made up my mind.

It seems that everybody loves these cabs, they seem to have an awesome, huge low end and they have V30's.

I was really interested and excited about these cabs, but the damn colour put me off.

I think you have guessed right: ORANGE PPC-412! http://www.ikebe-gakki.com/web-ikebe...img/ppc412.gif

They make them in black too and the black ones seem to be available in Finland as well! I really hated the orange colour, but since they make them in black, I am so going to get one

What are your opinions?

And one question, my Peavey is compatible with 16ohm cabs but my Single Recto only has outputs for 8 and 4 ohm cabs. Are there any solutions?

[darren]

As long as the Ohms of the cabinet are higher than the amp's rating, you're okay.

[7 Dying Trees]

Originally Posted by darren

As long as the Ohms of the cabinet are higher than the amp's rating, you're okay.

Not true for tube amps. You need to match the cabinet up the output ohm setting. Cabinet with lower ohms than the output ohm setting = fried tansformers and retube, the other way round you'll just end up with bad power transfer and from what i remember it'll wear down the transformers as well.

With solid state there aren't output transformeras (no need as mosfets/bjt transistors can produce current asd opposed to valves which provide voltage amplification which needs converting to current for the speakers (hence large output transformers) so solid state as long as you don't put a smaller load on than recommended, and thus fry the output transistors by melting them, then you're OK.

[Shaman]

Yeah, I don't really want to take the risk.

This really sucks, since the Orange cab is perfect for my needs...

Is the Orange cab a stereo one? The Mesa head has two 4 ohm outputs and one 8ohm one, so is there any way to make it work?

I suck when it comes to ohm's and technical stuff...

[hirah]

Originally Posted by darren View Post
As long as the Ohms of the cabinet are higher than the amp's rating, you're okay.
Not true for tube amps. You need to match the cabinet up the output ohm setting. Cabinet with lower ohms than the output ohm setting = fried tansformers and retube, the other way round you'll just end up with bad power transfer and from what i remember it'll wear down the transformers as well.

actually darren is correct. you can run a head with a 4 ohm output into a 16 ohm cab with no problems. you just can't do it the other way around.whether or not it sounds as good as a matched output to a matched input is another story.