I'm playing my HDRX20 through a second hand ported cube cab loaded with an EVM 12L speaker. It looks like sh*t but sounds great.
Recently I was getting fizzy distortion on a different "bespoke" 5e3 style combo amp at a couple different frequencies and jumped to the conclusion that the speaker was damaged. I was shopping for an EVM 12L as replacement and found a pre-owned but unused speaker at a very good price and snagged it right away.
Turns out the the "fizzy" noise turned out to be a microphonic power tube. I put a few silicon rings on the offending tube and it cleared right up.
Now I have two EVM 12L 8 Ohm speakers so what do I need to do? Well, I guess I have to build a 2x12 cabinet for the HDRX20.
I'm leaning toward building a "Barefaced" style rear "V" ported cabinet. The question I have for the experienced builders is ... should I wire the two speakers in series or parallel? The amp has speaker inputs for 4, 8, or 16 OHM so i could configure it to either 4 or 16 Ohm. Is there any different tone or efficiency attributes for one versus the other?
thanks for looking
Recently I was getting fizzy distortion on a different "bespoke" 5e3 style combo amp at a couple different frequencies and jumped to the conclusion that the speaker was damaged. I was shopping for an EVM 12L as replacement and found a pre-owned but unused speaker at a very good price and snagged it right away.
Turns out the the "fizzy" noise turned out to be a microphonic power tube. I put a few silicon rings on the offending tube and it cleared right up.
Now I have two EVM 12L 8 Ohm speakers so what do I need to do? Well, I guess I have to build a 2x12 cabinet for the HDRX20.
I'm leaning toward building a "Barefaced" style rear "V" ported cabinet. The question I have for the experienced builders is ... should I wire the two speakers in series or parallel? The amp has speaker inputs for 4, 8, or 16 OHM so i could configure it to either 4 or 16 Ohm. Is there any different tone or efficiency attributes for one versus the other?
thanks for looking
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