Trelja, Good answer. Looking at the Thor's crssover designed by Appolito, one can see a simple yet effective design. The thing "just looks right". Its not loaded down with lots of components. Dr Appolito seems to know how to get the most music of the Seas Excel. And he did so successfully.
Newbee I realize that hypothetically it should not matter whether its a 4 OR 8 ohm laod for a "well designed tube amp". But realistically, most tube amps have their limits, depending on how well the trans are made AND the push pull tube on the block. Each tube sings differently and reacts differently to the ohm level. I refer specifically to 4 and 8 ohms, to keep things simply, disregarding 6 ohms.
Ideally tube amps work best on a 8 ohm load. Sure my JOR has driven one beast of a speaker and one moderately heavy load at 4 ohms, which was the Tyler Lin Sig Sys. But the JOR is not built for such loads over a long haul.
Pauly "4 ohms should not be any problem for a tube amp". But in my experience tube amps do not like 4 ohms, especially when the music gets complex, as in orch, even large jazz ensemble is rather thin sounding.
Push pull's , like SET amps can be picky on what speakers they prefer, for best potential.
I'll stay with 8 ohms.
The Tyler Lin Super Towers(8 ohm) is now on my radar and the Tyler Lin Sig Sys(4 ohm) is off.
Thanks Joe for that fine post, crossover network gets overlooked too often. I, like you, want to see whats inside the box BEFORE i buy.
A sealed speaker does me no good. Even if I don't know how the hell a crossover is made.
Paul
Baton Rouge
