Vintage Synth Repair

all true, but in this case, you have an amp designed for a 16 ohm 
load...and i doubt any speaker you put in that thing today would be 
any less effecient than the original.

deknow

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "David" 
<packrat392003@y...> wrote:
> --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "deknoww" <deknow@n...> 
> wrote:
> > ...i can't imagine any reason not to use an 8 ohm speaker, and 
add 
> an 
> > 8 ohm resistor in series.
> > 
> >
> 
> If you use an 8 ohm speaker in series with an 8 ohm resistor, you 
> will have a 16 ohm load, but you will be dissipating half the 
output 
> power in the resistor - so make sure it is large enough to handle 
> half the rated output of the amplifier.