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Permalink Reply by Tom T on June 26, 2017 at 11:30am

Gitty has some nice 3" rectangular speakers

A complete amp with speaker is also available as a kit for  a low price. Saves a lot of parts chasing.

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Permalink Reply by Dropout on June 26, 2017 at 11:59am

All i saw on their site was circular speakers. I really like the image on the box and i think circular ones would cut into it. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 26, 2017 at 10:12pm

What are your cabinet dimensions?

What are your amp's output in watts and ohms?

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Permalink Reply by Dropout on June 26, 2017 at 10:54pm

I'm still waiting on the cigar box to get here. So no dimensions yet. The amp I want to use is a 14watt nightfire not sure about ohms.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on June 26, 2017 at 11:26pm

at 14 wats those small speakers are not going to handle it. the small speakers are usually good for only 1 to 3 watts..

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 27, 2017 at 7:32am

Most guitar rated speakers capable of handling 14watts will be too tall to fit in a cigar box. You could stack several boxes on top of each other or make a plywood box with the cigar box on top for decoration. A good guitar rated speaker that handle that wattage will be about 5" to 6" tall and you'll like the sound more coming from a speaker that's 6" to 12" diameter. The cabinet is supposed to be twice the size of the speaker dimensions for optimal performance. You can go smaller, but the sound will suffer. Some like the sound of a small speaker in a small box, others don't.

Jensen, Eminence or WGS guitar speakers are going to be the best options. You may find some others.

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Permalink Reply by Dropout on June 26, 2017 at 11:30pm

That's a bummer. I picked that amp because it has tone knobs and led prewired in the board. Any suggestions for something similar that would work?

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Permalink Reply by JL on June 27, 2017 at 1:38am

A) mount the amp circuit in the box you ordered, run the output to a jack and label it "SPEAKER" and mount your speaker(s) in a separate box with a jack, like a professional head and cabinet stack...in the speaker cab wire up 4 of the gitty 3in 4w speakers, 2 pairs of series and then wire the 2 pairs in parallel, label the jack "8ohm/16w".

B) mount the speakers buried inside the box and cut a custom hole in the box to  "port" the sound out, like the fancy BOSE soundwave thingy

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on June 28, 2017 at 12:29am

good idea JL. mini stacks can look cool..

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on June 27, 2017 at 2:19am

Put a round speaker behind a square hole. What's it going to hurt? Resulting sound depends on the size of the speaker to the size of the hole. If most of the speaker is covered you will end up with a bit of a nasaly sound. Losing some of the low end. If you find you've ended up with a shrilly sound put a square of wood directly in front if the center of the speaker. On the grill. Experiment with the size of this square. 

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Permalink Reply by Dropout on June 30, 2017 at 12:36pm

This is the box i plan on using. Its rather large as you can see. But I dont want to mess up the picture and logo. Could i run 3 speakers in it and use the 14 watt amp?

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on July 2, 2017 at 12:35am

use a 6"car speaker and have the opening on the back? that way you wont ruin the graphic...

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