Mini amp from class D head + mini stereo speakers

Absolutely there is risk of damaging the speakers, even at 12 ohms, unless you are very careful.

At 3 ohms (parallel), the risk is high that you damage your amp.

 

Sell them and purchase a small dedicated bass amp.

 

Those speakers are not made for bass guitar. They won’t last long. Get a small cheap practice amp.

 

Speakers are marginal
Kinda work at low volumes

Either way at 3 ohms or 6 ohms
They gonna fart out way before you put to much power in them.

Use your ears as judgment just common sense. For the money and time to build a enclosure. Be easier to buy used practice amp for 30/60 dollars.

Build cost adds up. Unless got free scrap.
Won't be pretty. Technically would work.
Nothing amazing though.

If you really wanna build something for fun a cheap 1x12 would work. Not a powerhouse but 2 cubic feet at 45hz with a Beta12a2 be good sounding 60 watt practice amp speaker

 

Because the ratings are not likely to be realistic, 50 watts might be ok but this is just a guess.

 

Theres a nice little "hotone" head and cab. 5 watts. Sounds great. "Thunderbass"

 

My bass sounds better unplugged than through inappropriate kit that won’t survive anyway.

Sorry. We’ve tried this when short of dough or patience. If it worked we’d all have some rig like that at home. Time is better spent doing some extra job for someone just to buy something real.

How many people played through a Wollensak reel to reel? Raise your hands. Admit it.

 

^^^^ This ^^^^^^

Not knowing when you live. You could easily get a small used practice amp for that money. If not order some headphones, a headphone amp and you're good even in an apartment.

 

Hand raised. Years ago I played through a roommates stereo and blew his speakers. He was not happy with me. Also played through a phonograph that had a mic input. Sounded like dog poopie.

 

16 ohms and 200 watts. Just be sure you understand how the power is defined, there are many examples where the numbers are not as conservative as others because they use different measurement units or definitions.

 

Where are you located? I have to imagine any pawn shop would have a junker practice amp available that would be way cheap and WAY better than what you are proposing here.

 

Ok, then just wait until you have your nifty rig and show us pics without burning your house down.

 

If I was desperate enough to do that I'd use one speaker at a time so when I blew the cone out of one across the room I could switch to the other. I'd also disconnect crossover mid and tweeter.

But, bearing in mind you are embarking on an exercise that has a high risk of destroying the Akais, wouldn't it be better to see if you can sell them for enough money to get the suggested pawn shop practice amp? Or even, with luck, a bass cab?

 

One danger of blowing speakers is that sometimes amps become collateral damage.

 

As far as watts ratings are concerned, the issue is two fold. Firstly that your instrument signal is not sanitised and processed like recorded music, so will contain far higher peak signals for the same apparent listening volume, and secondly the bass guitar consists solely of the frequencies most likely to damage speakers. This means in practice the safe power handling of your speakers is a fraction of the rated power.

To the folks who know more than me about this stuff, what issues might there be in connecting the hifi speakers to the headphones output?

 

I played bass through a pair of Akai 80's 3 way tower things at low volume. It was quite apparent that no more was to be had and no damage was done. I say so long as you don't mind possibly laying waste to speakers that are still serviceable if next to worthless, have a go at 12 ohms.

Absolutely do not expect to get anything like the loud you got playing records through them. Live bass is a different animal.