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greenalbatross · 03-05-2008, 10:49 AM

Yeah, the 4ohm into 8ohm cab should be fine. I wouldn't dime the amp though. How safe an impedance mismatch is tends to depend on the amp and it's transformers. Marshalls and Voxes usually can't handle mismatches, but a lot of vintage Fenders and some Ampegs were designed to handle mismatches. I like to run my Ampeg V4 at 8 ohms into a 16 ohm cab and it works like an attenuator. I get the thickest grind with the volume up at noon. Past 1:00 and the amp sounds like it's going to blow.

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greenalbatross Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 127 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: question about speaker ohms!?!?!?!? Yeah, the 4ohm into 8ohm cab should be fine. I wouldn't dime the amp though. How safe an impedance mismatch is tends to depend on the amp and it's transformers. Marshalls and Voxes usually can't handle mismatches, but a lot of vintage Fenders and some Ampegs were designed to handle mismatches. I like to run my Ampeg V4 at 8 ohms into a 16 ohm cab and it works like an attenuator. I get the thickest grind with the volume up at noon. Past 1:00 and the amp sounds like it's going to blow.