Speaker question

[joakinrox]

Hello!!! I'm planning on building a combo punch amp, but the enclosure I'm planning on using can take a speaker of up to 5", so in your opinion which of these options would sound better?:

• a 5" guitar speaker (like a jensen mod 5 for example
• a stack of four 2" full range speakers (amplified through a cab sim like cóndor)

Also, do you know of any other 5" or smaller guitar speaker?

[PRR]

The MOD 5 is a kick-butt speaker for its size.

While I am a fan of many-speaker arrays, I can't think of any Twos that, quadded, would approach the MOD 5.

[seadi123]

Do not use HiFi speakers, they will never sound good and you will hate your amp immediately

[amptramp]

Go with the 5"speaker.  You have 1.5625 times the cone area and 0.625 times the surround length so you will get better bass and less Doppler distortion and probably better sensitivity.

[Quackzed]

i revamped a pc 'bass' speaker into a nice little guitar amp, it had 2 sattelite speakers (removed) and was the sub (lol) for the little 3 piece setup,was also a 5" speaker,box was about 7x7x7 and had a little port. the secret of it sounding so big was that the little enclosure size with the right length port had a resonant frequency of @ 95 hz  not far off from a 4x12 closed back 'stack' type cab. and it did have a little of that 4x12 oomph.
so if you close up the enclosure and add a port you can tune the resonant freq to add some low end,works a treat for the very small amp speaker setup.