Tri amping and protecting the tweeter

Do it or remain scared?

  • Yes man up

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  • No remain scared

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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Gibsonian

Gibsonian

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Have triamped for many years and have veered from this only when lacking a working crossover in the past 20 or so years. Every time I've always placed a capacitor in front of the tweeter to protect it. I would like to try without this phase shifting resistive dc blocker in the pathway. I have quite expensive tweeters btw, at least for me they are.

My tweeter amp is old and stock (Phase Linear Model 300} but it does have a dc protect circuit that appears to work. DC is nil at the outputs. The amp seems quite healthy.

Should I do it? That's what I'm looking for advice on if you would care to provide your thoughts????
 
Four way active here. Nothing between the amps and individual drivers but Monoprice wire.
Granted the JBL 033 tweeters aren't expensive, are easy to rebuild, and I have extras,
So I gave it a go.
No problems so far.
But then, there's no way I can accidentally generate a turn on thump with the power sequencers, DCP boards in the WOPLs, and stock PL300S2.
 
2 way active, WOPL 400 going bareback into Altec 807a tweeters with GPA diaphragms. I smoked one diaphragm when I unplugged the MiniDSP with the 400 still powered on. Don't be reckless and you'll be fine.
 
4 way active for me and caps to protect the horns and tweets, both are compression drivers that wouldn't like any "DC " ....

Just make sure the caps are selected as not to interfere with your chosen crossover Fq....
I'll dig up the JBL application chart and post it....
 
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I have triamped for over 30 years with no problems. My mids and tweets are driven by low powered vacuum tube amps
 
Bob my friend the bass player used a lightbulb in line with his tweeters to keep them intact.
 
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