Buying speakers, need advice/suggestions

James · Post by **James** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:30 pm

I have an empty speaker cabinet (post coming soon) and need to buy myself a couple of speakers to make it less empty. I'm not sure what to do with ohms and all that malarky. A quick read suggests this to me...

two 8ohm speakers in series = 16ohm
two 8ohm speakers in parrallel = 4ohm#

and that most 4 or 16ohm outputs will suit me. I can't find anything concrete but it seems that bassmans are 4ohms so doing parrallel should be best.

I'm going to be wanting 10" speakers, and I was considering getting one vintago 30 style (they do a 10" version) and one greenback. Wise move?

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:15 pm

It's exactly what I'd recommend.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:39 pm

Purchased. The place I was going to buy one from had only one greenback in 8ohm left, and none of the other. Luckily some guy was selling the other on ebay for a BIN price that worked out at exactly the same price as buying both at the same time from the original guys. Plus, I now get two happy new speaker days.

Cabinet mostly assembled, pics and a retitled thread coming later today.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:48 pm

Where did you get the 10" greenback from and how much? I'm sort of interested in one for my TT cabinet.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:05 pm

This shop that mostly sells on ebay. The one they have on ebay is 16ohm, but they come in both 8 and 16 format.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Lean-Business

I bought the 8ohm one using their site rather than ebay, and it came to about Â£53 after postage. The vintage 30 type is Â£30 before postage from them, and I got mine for Â£30 inc from some guy on ebay just selling one.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:07 pm

Yeah I knew those guys, I asked them to mail me when the 10" Greenback came out. They didn't the wankers.

http://www.lean-business.co.uk/eshop/in ... Path=14_21

Â£44.99. I'll probably pick one up next month.

They seem to have only 16 ohm greenbacks on their site - where were you able to select an 8 ohm one?

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:10 pm

I'll let you know how they are for postage speed and packing. I imagine it'll be fairly prompt.

While we're at it, does it matter much what type of wire I use to connect the speakers and jack? I have some wire that is too chunky for pedal use, and a little too big for guitar wire. Perhaps 32 or something as opposed to the more regular 22 I seem to see mentioned with guitar stuff. It's stranded too. This would be fine I assume?

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:17 pm

That'll be fine. As long as it's two cores and not shielded and core you're good.

I editted after you replied I imagine - I couldn't see 8 ohm on their site for the Greenback.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:18 pm

When I bought the 8hm one it said "1 in stock" so I imagine me buying it (about 15 mins ago) took it off and they'll update with an "out of stock" or with a new stock count on Monday. They do sell them though.

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:19 pm

Two cores? it's just lots of little strands.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:19 pm

OK, fair enough.

I think they'll mix lovely with your future Bassman.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:20 pm

James wrote:Two cores? it's just lots of little strands.

And you'll use two seperate wires, right?

What I mean is not guitar cable, which is one core of strands insulated from a shielding of strands - that is NOT appropriate for speaker wiring.

I just used speaker wire you'd see on a HiFi for the lead I made for my TT.