AW: Guitar rig advice wanted

[Haible Juergen <Juergen.Haible@nbgm.siemens.de>]

        >Another trick along this same line is to remove the paper cone
from the
        >speaker. It still loads the amp pretty much the same, but it
doesn't make
        >any sound. Then with Dave's little line out box, you're set. Of
course, you
        >might want to do this with a second speaker before you destroy
the one you have.

Brilliant idea !!!

A few questions:

(1) Has anybody tried this, or is only theory so far ?

(2) You would still need some severe low pass filtering, wouldn't you?
      (Asuming the lowpass action of a real speaker mostly comes from
its large
       dimensions - but I may be wrong.)

(3) The interaction of the coil with the amp might be a little
different, as the
      coil would probably move differently without the cone.
Nevertheless,
      the idea is absolutely great, as we have a real electro-mechanical
system
      at least. Anybody checked how lrge or how small the difference is
?

JH.