Biamp N802:is 55W tube enough for high/mids?


Hi

Is 55W enough to really drive the mid/tweet? The midrange presents a low impendance load down to 4 ohms.

I normally use 400W to drive these with their complete passive xover. I would still drive bass with 400W but it is difficult to afford triode power much more than 50W.

is that enough?

Call me a power freak I guess.
topher_m

Showing 2 responses by gregm

As Arthur notes, you should be able to do it. OTOH, 350Hz places you smack bang in the middle of the voices range, so most of yr tenors will come out of the "bass" amp and most of yr sopranos fm the triode (likewise with cellos and violins):)

Just check that your triodes of choice sort of maintains constant power between ~3,5ohm and ~8-10ohm.

Of course, you will test this before you buy, right?

Anyway, depending on how the triode behaves under test, you can guess at the end sonic result from an amplitude point of view.
The key is that I can actively biamp and eliminate any overlap between amps. I will be using a DEQX that can do 100db/octave+ crossover
I strongly suggest you follow the characteristics of the passive x-overs (slope, freq, q, etc)

You will disconnect the spkrs' internal x-over of course.