wattage for valve heads- whats good enough?

[Noisyjon]

[quote name='ben604' post='450418' date='Mar 31 2009, 12:05 PM']Yeah...but dont valve amps sound lovely.[/quote]
Yes!

[umph]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='450215' date='Mar 31 2009, 03:04 AM']Really?

So a 100W solid state amp can actually produce around 200W of power?[/quote]
technically yes but solid state amps tend to have their peak power pretty overrated especially older peavey/american amps which used a different scale to measure wattage which was just double the english one. Plus once you hit distortion it tends to sound pretty bad unless your using a mosfet power amp

[escholl]

[quote name='alexclaber' post='450415' date='Mar 31 2009, 12:00 PM']That's exactly what the baffle step is. With the speaker on the floor below the baffle step it radiates into half space and above the baffle step it radiates into quarter space. Linearly double the size of the baffle (i.e. use four cabs) and you lower the frequency where you shift from half space to quarter space radiation by an octave.

Alex[/quote]

ah, ok, it makes sense now. thanks!

edit: i just read another thread where you link [url="http://barefacedbass.com/technical.html"]here[/url] on your own site in the technical bit, and have realized that the acoustic coupling bit is exactly what i was thinking of! doh! at least we're on the same...erm...wavelength

but is the benefit of 4 cabs still only 6dB over one cab?

Edited March 31, 2009 by escholl

[Musicman20]

Orange AD200b Mk3 - 200W Tube....loud as hell. Once you really crank it...then you get that sound youve been after for years !