Electronic Musical Instruments

On my synthesizer, should I use an amplifier or speakers?

I will soon be purchasing a Roland JUNO-Gi electronic synthesizer, and I admittedly know nothing about audio. I plan on playing mostly at home, so I don't need anything for stage performance just yet. I was looking into some information about amps when a friend suggested that speakers would simply be a better choice for a keyboard.

Hello there,

Unless that model of keyboard has a built in amplifier you will need an external amp to run the signal into in order to hear it. If you run it directly into a set of speakers, you will have no volume and won't hear it.

The power rating of speakers does not mean how loud they are. It means how much power from an amp those speakers are capable of handing. If you run a 30 watt output amp into a 100 watt speaker it will sound no louder than if you ran the same amp into a 50 watt speaker. The power of the amp determines how much power will go through the speaker.

In all likelihood, you will need an amp and speaker to hear that keyboard. If your friend says you do not need an amplifier and that keyboard does not have its own built in amplifier, I suggest your friend does not know what he is talking about. Usually keyboards that have a built in amp also have speakers.

later,

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