Guitar Cab - 2 Speakers, Different Power Ratings
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:55 am
I am putting together a guitar cab for my 30W tube amp, and have been told that at full volume it outputs up to 55W of power.
My questions is, I want to use a 20W 8ohm speaker in parallel with a 50W 8ohm speaker. Will this work? - This should give me a 70W load at 4ohms right? - but as they are both the same resistance, they take half the current each which would be too high for the 20W speaker?
The reason for this is I want to mix 2 different brand and models of speaker to get a unique tone.
I just want someone to confirm. My calculations show that with a 55W output, without knowing anything else, each speaker would need to handle 27.38 Watts (is that correct?)
My questions is, I want to use a 20W 8ohm speaker in parallel with a 50W 8ohm speaker. Will this work? - This should give me a 70W load at 4ohms right? - but as they are both the same resistance, they take half the current each which would be too high for the 20W speaker?
The reason for this is I want to mix 2 different brand and models of speaker to get a unique tone.
I just want someone to confirm. My calculations show that with a 55W output, without knowing anything else, each speaker would need to handle 27.38 Watts (is that correct?)