I've got an old tube amp from the 50's or 60's, class A single el84 power tube so it's not very loud. I've been wondering if the (original) speaker in the combo is crap or not, and wanted to swap in one from my cab, but when I measure across the speaker terminals it seems like the speaker that's in there is 2 ohm (reads 1.6 on the multimeter). I've always understood that you can drive a higher impedance with an amp although it might sound quieter because it draws less power from the amp. Since it's such a low power amp to begin with though, would it even be able to drive the 8 ohm speaker?
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8 ohm speaker for amp that has a 2 ohm speaker?
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with a ss amp, you can usually go higher impedance than it is rated without hurting anything, but youll get less volume. with a tube amp the speaker is linked to the output tubes through the transformer. in most cases you can get away with a slight impedance mismatch, 2 ohms to 8 ohms is a big jump but at low volume settings for a short period of time, it should be ok
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Originally posted by Securb View PostI would connect the amp's speaker terminals to one of your cabs to see what kind of output you get. Also, it may be quiet because that speaker is faulty and out of the box was not 2 ohms. It might get louder with a different speaker.
Weird. I'd have figured that some noise would come out of the 8 ohm cab.Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!
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I don't have an amp that can drive 2 ohms.
It's a Thorcraft Mustang. Weird old Canadian amp.
Looks like this:
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Celestion makes 4 ohm 8 inch speakers so you could build a 2 x 8 cab. Otherwise there's little choice for 2 ohm speakers.
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