Quote Originally Posted by Altec Best View Post

OK first in general if your using Tube amps go with 16 ohm and SS use 8 ohm.

Way overgeneralized AB. That's the speaker 101 answer.

As Pano notes, using a 16 fram on SS has some options.

Personally prefer it, as a 16 ohm HF with parallel resistance will show a MUCH flatter impedance curve to the crossove than an 8 ohm fram.

Due to the lower efficiency of woofs you don't wanna do that without power to waste.

Even with active xovers, presenting a flatter impedance to the amp is gonna result in a more uniform power draw.

It really comes down to how much you can expand your brain before it blows out, as there is virtually an infinite amount of info.

Also, even if you wanna use SS amps...what about the crossovers? If you already have 16 ohm xovers 8 ohm frams are counter productive.

The simple answer is there are no simple answers...