High-impedance speaker for OTL tube amp . . . bad idea?

Mar 13, 2009 0 Replies

Proposed project idea, that I wonder if anyone has ever done before. What if someone were to purchase 100 surplus microspeaker/headphone drivers, each of them with a cone about 1" in diameter and a 150 ohm coil. Suppose that person was crazy enough to mount them all on a baffle board, perhaps in a 10 by 10 array. Then were to to wire them up in two parallel groups of 50 drivers each, for a final impedance of



3750 ohms. So now it's basically a planar driver, with a very high impedance.

And drive it directly with a parafeed triode output stage, a 300B or



211 would be awesome, no output transformer required.

Would this thing work, or what?



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