On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:48:54 -0800, Cadiscase wrote:

If I wanted to buy a NEW 3.2 ohm speaker to use with a Hammarlund radio
is there one that anyone would recommended for listening to AM
broadcasts? Is there any recommended size speaker such as 6 inch or 8
inch, etc? Is there any loss in audio quality using a 4 ohm speaker? How
would two 8 ohm speaker in parallel work?

I suspect that a 4-ohm speaker, or two 8-ohm speakers in parallel, will
sound just fine.

Is anyone using a DSP unit with their boatanchor which they would
recommend? Most [All ?] DSP units distort the audio so there is probably
always some distortion, but some DSP units would be better than others.
I am thinking in term of AM signals broadcast band reception.

I have followed the price of the Hammarlund speakers on ebay and they
are a bit expensive. I assume they would be best, but a bit rich for me.

I don't know what you want the DSP unit to do, or what you're calling
"distortion", but just about any post-audio filtering unit is going to
work by "distorting" the signal -- the question isn't "does it distort?",
but "does it improve other things enough to make the distortion
worthwhile?".

Beyond that -- I dunno, I really got on to answer your speaker question.

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