Hissing tweeter?

[uk_lefty]

Hi everyone. One of my amps has a tweeter that hisses. I know it's only the tweeter because when I turn off the tweeter there is no hissing. It's an older amp with dials that crackle a little. Does this sound like an easy fix? I don't want to spend a lot on it but I would like to get it sorted so there's no defects.

[fretmeister]

When I mentioned a similar issue Bill told me that tweeters don't hiss, amps hiss.

 

@Bill Fitzmaurice 

[Passinwind]

1 hour ago, fretmeister said:

When I mentioned a similar issue Bill told me that tweeters don't hiss, amps hiss.

 

@Bill Fitzmaurice 

True, and dials also don't crackle, but potentiometers sometimes do.

 

 

[Downunderwonder]

While we're at it steam rollers don't roll steam either.

 

But yeah. No easy fix not involving fixing the amplifier.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

Speakers reproduce the signal that's sent to them by the amp. In this case the amp is sending hiss. You don't hear it through the woofer because woofers don't respond to high frequencies.