Suggest a sub amp to power NHT 2.9 bass?


I have a pair of NHT 2.9 towers driven by McCormick DNA 0.5. Would like to biwire and not quite sure of which sub amp will supply enough power to drive the bass. I have heard that the NHT SA-3 Sub Amp would be an adequate choice.

Like clean, crisp highs and soft, detailed, yet ample bass output. Heard that 2.9s require alotta power and I feel that I need more and that biwiring is the answer.

Any suggestions?
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Showing 1 response by gunbei

The mono NHT SA-3 was made not only to drive the SW3P slave sub, but also to be used in a biamped system the 3.3s and 2.9s or even drive two SW3Ps. It has adjustable gain, variably adjustable crossover and a phase switch. One thing though, unlike the SA-2 or MA-1 which accept both speaker level and line level inputs, the SA-3 only accepts line level inputs.

For many years I had used the SA-3/SW3P combo but in recent years found a combination of a Paradigm X30 and older Bryston 4B to be superior. But this combo would probably cost more than double that of a used NHT SA-3.