davep;143915 Wrote: > Bi-amping and Bi-wiring are well known concepts that have been around a > long time. Both depend on having speakers designed to accept two > inputs each. (There are some tri-wiring set-ups also I believe). In > one you simply run two sets of speaker cables from the L and R output > posts on your 2-channel power amp to each speaker, and in the other you > have a seperate power amp (either half of a stereo amp or a single > monobloc) feeding each set of speaker posts via its own cable pair. > Suitably designed monoblocs have a "pass through" arrangement whereby > the two units on each side can be connected to the single source > output. > > I have been doing bi-amping for several years using four identical > monobloc power amps (Musical Fidelity), most recently into B&W Nautilus > speakers. Since the arrival last week of my Transporter I have taken > the pre-amp out of circuit and now run the Transporter's analog outputs > direct to the 4 power amps and on to the B&Ws. > > Sound is the best I have ever had in my own set-up and is continuing to > delight me as I spend more time listening. > > davep
Can you describe the pass-thru arrangement in more detail? This is probably what I was getting at, but sounds like prob not available on a cheap amp. I'm not really following all the other stuff on external/active crossovers, and it seems like that may be a red herring...? Essentially, I'd be treating the T-amp like a monobloc (now there's another question - can the two channels of the t-amp be jumpered in some way? would it be desirable to do that, provide more power, etc?), so at the least you could bi-amp with 2 t-amps, but I wonder what the cheapest entry point would be to be able to use 4 amps like you're doing (like for instance, using a Y analog IC from the SB or DAC to 2 amps on each speaker for low/high speaker inputs, along with some way to jumper a stereo amp into a mono amp). Like I said at the start.... goofy question! -- joncourage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ joncourage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28381 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
