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Originally Posted by Ronkirn
absolutely correct, as Bill Lawrence says, ". . . the DC resistance of a pickup is about as significant as what color shoes a person is wearing." relative to the sound/output of a pickup.
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I agree that DC resistance is an odd way to try and quantify pickup output, but I don't agree with you that DC resistance provides no indication of the output of a pickup.
Between different manufacturers, DC resistance isn't so helpful in comparing pickups. There are many factors (e.g., magnet strength and wire thickness) that also affect the output so as to make DC resistance useless in isolation. But I often look at different pickups from the same manufacturer. Assuming that manufacturer is using the same magnets and wire type (which is a fair assumption in many cases), I think it's possible to glean some useful information about the sound differences between two pickups just based on their DC resistances.