Originally Posted by: parrotheada1a... He said ''for the tone and the punch.'' He went on to explain that just because you have that big 100W head, there may be no need at all to run it at full tilt. He said that when you wire it up right, the extra cab spreads the load, freeing up the speakers to reproduce the tone without distorting themselves.

The problem isn't too many speakers, its too many Watts. By the time you crank a 100 Watt tube amp into the 'sweet spot' you're blowing the walls out of any small or medium venue. Even with a 2x12" combo like my Ampeg VT-22.

If your sound is based on pedal effects and front-end distortion in the preamp, then you can roll back the power amp and still get your sound. If you push your amp to the edge, and then dance back and forth across the distortion threshold of the power section, that approach doesn't work.