Ruby amp speakers

[raulgrell]

After some reading, I have heard that 4" speakers were not good for ruby amps, didn't show their their true sounds...

Seen as I'm quite short for money, I have taken apart an old hi-fi radio... Inside each cabinet, there was a 4" speaker rated at 4ohms impedance and 8 watts; and a small 2" tweeter speaker rated at 4ohms and 10 watts...
I also took apart an old pair of computer speakers, each containing a 4" speaker rated 15W and a 2" tweeter of unknown impedance and power rating...

This leaves me with 4 woofers and 4 tweeters... Would any combination of these be useable in a ruby amp? I dont want it for gigging, just a practice amp...

From what I gather, by connecting the speakers in a specific way, I could increase the impedance to 8ohms or even 16 ohms, which by my understanding would be preferable over the 4ohm impedance...

Also, slightly unrelated: Does the ruby function well when preceded by distortion stompbox?

Any input?

Cheers,
Raul

[grolschie]

My $0.02: Guitar amp distortion really needs a speaker designed for a guitar amp to give it some warthm, thickness and to tame some of the brittleness somewhat. HiFi speakers will work, but probably won't give you the tone that you are after.

I am guessing that you can wire one pair of woofer+tweeter (or woofer+woofer) in series to give 8ohms together. All four hifi speakers in series should be 16ohms. Not sure about the computer speakers, but you could get a rough idea of the ohms using a multimeter perhaps.

Ruby sounds good with my Bad Monkey in front of it.

[Rick]

I can tell you from my own experience, that a crappy old 5" speaker that I snagged from someones old garbage stereo throwaway ...sounded great!
It got really heavy and special with a distortion in front of it! It's a serious little amp the Ruby. Try all manner of spkrs until you find one you like.
I am powering mine from a small diy 12V supply -easy, cheap, and I think worth considering for most, unless you're going to play it under the old apple tree.
I bought a new 8" spkr rated at 20W, but this didn't sound as good as the 5" rated at ~5W, but this speaker was in this case not as efficient as the little one.
Just play around with it a bit ...I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun!

...Rick