Can you use a guitar amp to power a passive speaker? If not can you recommend a cheap amp :)Thanks
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Yes, you can. I wouldn't though. I suspect you're under the impression that hooking up your little 15 watt practice amp to your PA speakers will make it louder. It won't. If anything it will make it quieter, because the power section of your small amp does not have enough power to effectively power your PA speakers. A 15 watt power source will NOT power a speaker designed to handle 200 watts. Also, if you've never done something like that before, it's a bad idea to do. I could probably hook something like that up, as I have years of experience with amps and electronics in general. If you don't know what you are doing you stand a very good chance of frying the amp, the speakers, or yourself. You'll also have to cut and splice the wires running from the power section of your amp to the internal speaker. If it doesn't work, you've just made your amp useless because you can no longer hook the internal speaker up. TL:DR ANSWER: DON'T DO IT.
Your additional details add even mote confusion, can you, use a guitar speaker with a speaker! All ordinary speakers are passive but no speakers have knobs (not nobs) on them. You can connect any speaker to a guitar amplifier providing the impedances match and that the power handling capacity of the speaker matches or exceeds that of the amp. Sound-wise though, a guitar amp sounds best connected to speakers meant for guitars and PA speakers sound best powered by PA amps. Really though, I suggest you learn a little more about amplifiers and speakers before you attempt it.
