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Amp for a tweeter

Hi
I’m looking for suggestions.

I’m moving towards a 3 way active crossover system. I’d like to have a dedicated amp for the tweeter. I’m looking for a low power but low noise floor. Is there an amp on the market dedicated to drive only a tweeter?

The midrange will be a First Watt J2 and the crossover will be via First Watt B4.

I primarily listen to chamber music at low volume but would like to improve my system for symphonic music.
cjk5933
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sebrof
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I run a PP EL34 amp (30 Watt) on the woofer/mids and a 2A3 SET amp (3 Watt) on the tweeters. Works for me.
zd542
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"11-06-15: Kijanki
Low power amp has lower signal gain than high power amp. How you going to match it?"

He did say he was going to use an active xover.
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kijanki
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So, he must have additional gain in crossover. Thanks Zd542.
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georgehifi
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If you have a very good tweeter, a pure Class A wide bandwidth amp of 5 to 20 watts would be nice.
Pass had a project one years ago, that I made which drove the treble panel of Quad ESL57's and a Kelly Decca ribbon as also >12khz
http://www.firstwatt.com/pdf/art_classa_20.pdf

He may have done a First Watt one since, these are the perfect tweeter amp, even mid range as well, in a 3 way as you have.

BTW the First Watt B4 is a killer active Xover

Cheers George
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