Speaker Impedance Curves - Loadbox

Tried to search for this info but couldn't find it - why would you want to select one of the loadbox options (LB2, Oxbow, Double Notes) as your speaker impedance curve in the amp block?
 
while there is no absolute why you should or should not use them….

If you like a tone that happened to use the hardware version of those you mentioned….

you’d end up closer to the tone/feeling that you’re going after that used that hardware if you use the corresponding speaker imp curve
 
The IC of any cab/load will change how the amp reacts. So, lets say you're using your amp with the LB2 and love the tone, and then want to make an equivalent sound on the Axe: You would match the impedance curve (LB2) and then dial it the amp block as close as you can. After, you would do a tone match (in between the amp and cab) to squish out any eq differences. Realistically there's no rules, this would be more for the specific case of amp matching I think?

In my case, all of my amps are going into suhr reactive loads (2 for stereo, more is more!) and then into IRs in my DAW (which i capture later, to load into the axe). The amps I'm using for recording I would never feel comfortable taking live (old plexi, old iic+) so it would be nice to capture even how my amp is 'seeing' a load, since that's my baseline for dialing in the tones. As I said in my original post, I don't really have too much trouble doing this matching with just the amp block settings and no tone match, but IC+tma would be even closer.

Here’s a case study / reference
 
I think Cliff added these loadbox curves primarily to enable users to more accurately compare their amps through a load box to the corresponding model in the Axe.

For example, if I wanted to compare my 5153 Stealth to the Axe model, I’d use the LB-2 UK SIC in the 5153 Stealth amplifier block to match the response of the physical LB-2 loading down my amp.
 
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