Good cheap bass heads...

[Varcolac]

Well, I think I'm gonna go with the Behringer...
Money being the main issue at the moment this one sounds like the most bang for the buck. Slight issue I have is that the cab I'm getting is 16ohm, so the behringer being 450@4ohms is gonna lose a lot of power right?

I should note that my defence of the Behringer is based on it through a 4 ohm 410 or 115. No idea what it'd sound like going through 4 times the impedence.

 

[bigreddestroyer]

A 16 ohm bass cab? What, pray tell, is this monstrosity?

Its a JCM800 1935 bass cab, only info I can find says its 260w@16ohms

Is this bad?

 

[TemjinStrife]

Means you're going to be getting like 1/4 the rated power at 4 ohms. Those 1935 cabs were designed to run with tube amps so you could pile a bunch on for volume and not drop impedance too low.

 

[deevit]

Hmm, might still work, but not really ideal.. What impedance are the speakers in that cab? Maybe it can be rewired to 8 or 4 ohms.

 

[bigreddestroyer]

Hmm, might still work, but not really ideal.. What impedance are the speakers in that cab? Maybe it can be rewired to 8 or 4 ohms.

No idea about the speakers, as I mentioned, I'm new to all this head/cabs business! Is it easy/dangerous at all doing any re-wiring?

 

[deevit]

If you know what you are doing, it's not.

 

[Bevo]

16 ohms sounds high, I would take it to a tech and see if they can rewire it to 4 or 8 ohms.
You don't find 32 ohm speakers to often so you may have some funky wiring with who knows what type of speakers.

 

[DLG]

I had that Behringer for a few years while saving up for something better and it's a workhorse. nothing special, and you don't have many options in shaping your tone, but it's loud enough and reliable, and of course, cheap.