GreenTea
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Good morning! Can any of you worthy elves share if the 16 ohm internal stock speaker in the Vox AC15HW1 can be swapped for an 8 ohm speaker and configured by the physical ohm switch on the back of the amp to equal the new 8 ohm speaker I'd like to install?
I see the 8/16 ohm physical switch on the back of the amp and am wondering if this switch also affects the internal hardwired speaker.
For example, I already have an 8 ohm alnico ASW (Austin Speaker Works) “Absolute” speaker. I’d really like to rip the stock 16 ohm greenie out and replace it with the 8 ohm ASW.
Knowing that I “could” swap and install the 8 ohm ASW speaker for the stock 16 ohm greenback, my specific question is this: does the 8/16 ohm switch on the back of the amp also affect the amp’s internal speaker or does it just control the external speaker load?
To say it another way, if I set the amp’s physical ohm setting switch to 8 ohms, will that be healthier for the amp in general or does the amp’s ohm switch solely affect the external speaker outputs and the amp’s internal ohm setting would remain configured for 16 ohms for the internal speaker despite the switch setting?
I could just get a 16 ohm blue, but trying to avoid unnecessary costs if possible.
Cheerfully signed, Blixem (a friend of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen)
I see the 8/16 ohm physical switch on the back of the amp and am wondering if this switch also affects the internal hardwired speaker.
For example, I already have an 8 ohm alnico ASW (Austin Speaker Works) “Absolute” speaker. I’d really like to rip the stock 16 ohm greenie out and replace it with the 8 ohm ASW.
Knowing that I “could” swap and install the 8 ohm ASW speaker for the stock 16 ohm greenback, my specific question is this: does the 8/16 ohm switch on the back of the amp also affect the amp’s internal speaker or does it just control the external speaker load?
To say it another way, if I set the amp’s physical ohm setting switch to 8 ohms, will that be healthier for the amp in general or does the amp’s ohm switch solely affect the external speaker outputs and the amp’s internal ohm setting would remain configured for 16 ohms for the internal speaker despite the switch setting?
I could just get a 16 ohm blue, but trying to avoid unnecessary costs if possible.
Cheerfully signed, Blixem (a friend of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixen)