Alan Ratcliffe wrote
nick wrote
MikeM wrote
Personally, I think the magic of big amps, is how they drive the speakers. Obviously more air is being moved, so they sound bigger, but the higher wattage also gets some speaker distortion. You won't get that if you're running 10 watts into 60 watts worth of speakers.
This I totally agree with and have experienced. 8)
Yeah, but miking up a small amp and putting it through an accurate PA means the PA speakers are doing the big air movement thing. Has the big advantage of you not going deaf by age 35 like the guys pictured above likely will (and as a muso, how much is your hearing worth to you?).
If you really must have speaker distortion what stops you from running 10W into 10W of speakers? For that matter, how much distortion do you figure eight Vintage 30s are adding to a 100W Marshall (let alone G12K100s)?
Guitarists can be a funny bunch.
While i agree with you, that a 10W speaker can produce speaker break up in a 12W 5E3 Deluxe Tweed like amp . . . some people might not like the tone of the lil 10Watt driver, and might perfer the higher watt Vintage 30's.
We all know (or should at this point in our lives) that every single speaker sounds diff from one another, hence the fact that are so many on the market today.
