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so I've been given some speakers for free from a friend of mine, they each are like 4 ohms and I was wondering how I could hook these up to my epiphone valve jr. (which already has it's own 16 ohm speaker)

now, they're like car speakers that were brought for a car but never used is it still worth trying to use them as extra cabs for my amp? how would i hook them up without fire or breaking the amp? anyone wanna help an amp noob out? haha

You'd need to connect 4 in series, then disconnect the VJ's speaker.

I've read that there's an 8 ohm tap on the Valve Jr's transformer that's just not used. If you used said 4 speakers in series, and put them in parallel with the stock speaker, you could use that tap. Or, if you don't have 4 of the speakers, you could use two of them in series without the stock speaker.

McSpunckle wrote:You'd need to connect 4 in series, then disconnect the VJ's speaker.

I've read that there's an 8 ohm tap on the Valve Jr's transformer that's just not used. If you used said 4 speakers in series, and put them in parallel with the stock speaker, you could use that tap. Or, if you don't have 4 of the speakers, you could use two of them in series without the stock speaker.

forgot to mention that the valve jr combo i have has an 4ohm an 8ohm and 16ohm speaker sockets for speakers.

fuzz/volume-full wrote:forgot to mention that the valve jr combo i have has an 4ohm an 8ohm and 16ohm speaker sockets for speakers.

wire the two speakers you have in series:
+ (O) - connect + (O) -

and connect them the remaining wires (+ of the first speaker and - of the second) to the 8 Ohm socket on your amp.

Schlatte wrote:

fuzz/volume-full wrote:forgot to mention that the valve jr combo i have has an 4ohm an 8ohm and 16ohm speaker sockets for speakers.

wire the two speakers you have in series:
+ (O) - connect + (O) -

and connect them the remaining wires (+ of the first speaker and - of the second) to the 8 Ohm socket on your amp.

cool, I'll try this as soon as I get hold of some speaker wire haha, I also assume that i have to remove the 16 ohm speaker that's connected to the amp at the minute?

Fuck that noise, turn them into mic's.

hooked them up, they sound ok, very bassey and very quiet, I think I can't really use them with my amp, good chairs for the time being until I can think of something to use them for (laptop speakers possibly) thanks for all the suggestions though!