Understood, but I wasn’t referring to the power handling capacity of the wire. I was just wondering if in the 2 jack wire method, if the first pair of speakers influences or alters the signal in any way before the signal reaches the other pair of speakers vs the signal arriving at all 4 speakers simultaneously with the 4 jack wire method.
Kinda what I was aluding to earlier and or if the speaker wire is undersized for handling 4 speakers.
I tried the two different wirings from the pics from Scumback and I did notice a big change. It could have been that it was hard getting the four 16 gauge stranded wires soldered on the output jack (because it was) but I'm pretty sure my connections were solid. They both had plenty of power and it was a big improvement over the stock stereo jack and thin wire setup.
I think what happened here is because there are different wirings that look very similar. So when the scumback guy did his test with Dave at that time they did use two different circuits that gave a small difference in tone. One of them having two wires coming from the jack and the other having four. However the diagrams Scumback posted are most likely not what they used , at least one of them Is not. I would bet money on that , is there a tiny chance I’m wrong, sure. I’m always humble enough to say “hey I could be wrong” but another red flag to me is the unwillingness from the scumback guy to say something similar. Everyone makes mistakes.
Jim,
I got my ‘03 OS slant for $400 during the Covid war against humanity with a new slipcover. I consider it a gift from God.Since everyone now hates the OS cab, I'm still looking for an OS slant/straight from the 90s if anyone wants to get rid of one for cheap !
You mentioned a "stock stereo jack" . Did you change from a stereo setup with left and right input jacks or change to a different type of mono jack? You also mentioned changing wire size ? It's hard to know what is producing the perceived difference in sound if you change several things at the same time.
That's a pretty good deal ! I f*****g love my old OS slant cab. It's from '96. Been using it recently to test various power amps and it really delivers the goods IMHO ! I'm thinking hard about a slant/straight to go with it and make a nice looking/sounding full stack.
My 1960B stereo switch started malfunctioning recently so I just rewired it myself rather than buy another one of these...What I'm saying is I think you have the nomenclature backward. Bogner's cabs are wired parallel/series, not series/parallel. Either way, whatever you call it, I think you're point is you like this first wiring method?
Bogner's cabs are like this, which is parallel-series...
This is series-parallel:
I put a mono jack in with new wire and tried both of the wiring diagrams on Scumbacks site for 4x12s
AND found a difference between the two?
I think you'll love it! Use the Aiken diagram and you can wire up a single pole, single throw switch to add in one wire and go from S/P to P/S on the fly, like a Rock/Metal or Vintage/Modern switch or something. Or if not, you can easily go back to P/S with that one wire.
haha. I wired it the stock mesa way on purpose when i put the mesa v30s in there.
