I have an SVT-CL and a handful of 8 ohm cabinets. Looking to replace the 15" driver in one of my SVT115EN cabinets with something 4ohm. I prefer midrange to super deep bass for the music I play. Suggestions welcome!
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New 15" speaker for SVT115EN cabinet
- Thread starter GeneralElectric
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You'd probably get a better responce from our speaker swap guru's if you edited your post to include pics & the dimensions of the cab & its port design.
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There might be better options for you, but I've been digging the 4-ohm Eminence C2515 speaker I installed in my Ampeg cab. It's worked our really well with all my amps, including tube powered SVT's.
Here's a link to my old speaker swap thread with more info: Help, I think I wanna instal a 4-ohm/15" speaker in my SVT-18e cab, am I crazy?
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There might be better options for you, but I've been digging the 4-ohm Eminence C2515 speaker I installed in my Ampeg cab. It's worked our really well with all my amps, including tube powered SVT's.
Here's a link to my old speaker swap thread with more info: Help, I think I wanna instal a 4-ohm/15" speaker in my SVT-18e cab, am I crazy?
Why do you want to replace the stock 8 ohm driver with a 4 ohm model? If you will be using this as a stand-alone cab, you will not get more output from your SVT head. You could run a 4 and 8 ohm parallel combination on a 2 ohm tap, but the single 4 ohm 15 would get most of the power.
As 'anderbass' mentioned, cab internal volume (or at least cab dimensions and port dimensions [ht x w x d] are required in order to model candidate drivers. This is important, even though you are interested in a mid-dominant tone, because a driver may be easily overdriven (excursion) in a misaligned cabinet. Glad to help, but need information (including a budget).
Edit: The need for a 4 ohm driver is extremely limiting - most 15 inch drivers are 8 ohms. Just saying don't go down that route if you don't have to. Not that there aren't some good 4 ohm drivers, just not nearly as many.
As 'anderbass' mentioned, cab internal volume (or at least cab dimensions and port dimensions [ht x w x d] are required in order to model candidate drivers. This is important, even though you are interested in a mid-dominant tone, because a driver may be easily overdriven (excursion) in a misaligned cabinet. Glad to help, but need information (including a budget).
Edit: The need for a 4 ohm driver is extremely limiting - most 15 inch drivers are 8 ohms. Just saying don't go down that route if you don't have to. Not that there aren't some good 4 ohm drivers, just not nearly as many.
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The OP probably wants a 4-ohm (stand-alone) cab for his tube powered SVT, because most of us still believe what Ampeg has been recommending for the last 49 years...
Problem is that dropping a 4Ω driver into his existing cab will not make it appreciably louder than the 8Ω one that came out. It's adding a second 8Ω cabinet where the magic lies.
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