JLBoogie
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Just bought a Mark V head and picked up a used lonestar 2x12 cab off ebay that is in excellent condition. The cab has 2ea vintage 30's in it instead of the normal C-90's which is what interested me in this cab and it being lighter than a recto cab. The part they did not mention was that the cab is wired so each speaker is independant of each other and could be used as a stereo cab, was ordered that way from Mesa. The speakers are 8 ohm each. So now I have a cab that I thought would be rated at 120 watts 8 ohm, instead it is really 60 watts 8 ohm with the way it is wired so with the Mark V being 90 watts I have some concerns. Thought about rewiring so it they speakers are in series or parallel but it will change it to a 16 ohm or 4 ohm cab. Does anyone know what happens to the tone of a cab if changed, does a 4 ohm cab sound brighter and 16 ohm sound darker? I did rewire it last night so it was 16 ohm but did not like the sound change so wired it back to its original. Any thoughts?
