BassmanPaul

The standard 1/4" phone plug was originally developed for telephone switchboards. in that service they were rated at 48V DC at a couple of hundred milliamps. Using them for a guitar cable is fine. as a speaker cable not so much especially as amplifier power has grown. Up to a couple of hundred watts they are adequate but have problems shorting the amp if withdrawn accidentally from the amplifier. SpeakOn cables are superior in every way. Typically they are wired +1 >>> +1 and -1 >>> -1. For Bridge mode they are wired at the amp end +1 >>> +1 at the cabinet. Amp end +2 >>> -1 at the cabinet.

Too true! Too many make you go blind!!! LOL

Many of the heads were designed around 2Ω cabs and didn't perform so well into higher cabinet impedances.

As someone who worked in the electricity generating industry perhaps I'm biased! LOL

Only if it equates to more power output. 236W is only going to get you so far despite the algorithms used to process the signal.

For myself, I was glad to leave tube output sections behind. I still build tube amps but they are aimed at the guitar. My current amp is a 2000W capable class D stereo power amp. I designed and built a tube pre-amp to drive it. The system sounds great into a pair of 4Ω Acme B2 cabinets, one on each channel.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To see Gregory peck!

Brother, a little decorum would be in order!

That means we are free to go bonkers!!~ A mushroom goes into a bar (pub) The barman says 'we don't serve your kind in here!! The mushroom asks 'Why not? I'm a fungi!!

I'm pleased!

As long as you don't expect 750W actual output.

Contact Ashdown for a service centre near you. Let them repair it.

I wouldn't! Isn't an ant an uncle's wife?

I'd look at something from the Yorkville range including Traynor. Homegrown is easier to get your hands on!

Too far away for me! 😥

There's an old saying that goes something like: don't fix what ain't broke!

Come on @afterimage are you going to let me get away with that??? LOL

I was worried about a certain president and feared he would engineer a coup. I was right and although the warnings were to administrators in private messages still I was banned.

If the loudness of the 'pop' increases when the volume control is turned up then the problem has nothing to do with the power section and lies in the pre-amp. Possibly a failing tube or a leaky cap.

You guys from Liverpool always were a little crazy!! LOL

I've had my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine, as has my Dorothy. I'm hoping for an earlier second shot than July as at the moment. Yes the GTA is badly hit mainly due to the variants of concern but we are all doing our best. We are locked down yet again. Keep you and yours safe and healthy.

Hi David, I trust all my old friends on Talkbass are well and properly vaccinated. I miss you all even @abarson! LOL

Sometimes a tube/valve can develop a heater/cathode short that will be noisy. Changing out the ECC83/12AX7 will often be the cure.