Quote Originally Posted by Panomaniac View Post
Welcome to the forum!

I also run the A5 - but have 8 ohm woofers and 16 ohm drivers on the 803 horns.
But that is not a problem, as long as you are building your own crossover. If you are trying to use an already built crossover, it would be a problem. Look at the Hiraga crossover for the A5. Use the 8 ohm section for your horns, the 16 ohm section for the woofers. You will have to adjust the resistors on the horn, but we can help with that.

Yes, you can run these with a T-amp. I have quite a collection here and they all do well.
I am the t-amp guru, after all.
Thanks for the warm welcome. In your A5 configuration, is that an active crossover? I've managed to download the Hiraga crossover plan and I'm still trying to undertand it. It has a design for the 8 ohm crossover and the 16 ohm crossover, so do i use the 16 ohm design for the 515 and the 8 ohm design on the 288's? Will both crossover get linked to each other in one way or another or do the go to separate amplifiers respectively? And what kind of adjustment do you do with the resistors sir? Sorry having so many questions, still trying to understand.

Would you mind sharing what t-amps your using sir and how you use them on the altecs? I'd be very interested to know. For testing if the drivers work, i just used a pair of the original sonic impact 2 amp recased and reconfigured with new output transformers and caps. Somehow I always felt safe using this low powered tripath amplifiers is testing drivers compared to my solid states. Was planning on ordering a pair of some Dayton t-amps over parts express and experiment on using them as a 2nd setup to run the Altecs. The pop pulse is also readily available in my area though I haven't auditioned one yet.

Thanks.

Regards,

Earl