There is one thing most if not everyone one the forum is over looking. A 16 ohm speaker will handle so many watts, just the same as a 4 or 8. the difference is a 8 ohm speaker has less than twice the resistance than the 16 so it is double the draw on the amp. A 4 ohm would be 4 times the draw. This can emediately fry the already weak amp that is in the board. Dropping the ohms will not make a one watt amp sound lopuder, it can actually make it sound worse, because of the added work the amp must perform. The best thing to do is find a higher watt rating amp. I have seen 10 watt small amps that are very easy to build kit projects. The trick would be for some of our 14 and 18 board guroos to figure out how to slave it to the board. Then you can use a much better small speaker. And they do make very good for lack of a better word Micro speakers. I have been a musician for over 30 years and this is very basic stuff. Like I siad , it is just a matter of finding a way to incorperate the amp into the sound circuit of the 14 or 18 board.