You are in danger of confusing the OP IMO: Bi-amping is using a pair of amps to drive a conventional passive loudspeaker. Using a (line level) crossover before the amplifiers, is generally known as 'active' and is a quite different approach.
Bi-amping usually works because the passive loudspeaker has two sets of binding posts, which allow the crossover to be split into HF and LF parts. Each part of the crossover is then driven by a separate amplifier. The HF and LF parts of the speaker's crossover may further split the signal to multiple speaker drive units. At the very least, bi-amping allows each amplifier to 'see' a reduced crossover/drive unit load, and doubles the potential power into the speaker. You can argue whether it's better to use two amps of 'n' watts bi-amped or a single amp of '2n' watts, but bi-amping can definitely make a big difference to the sound - depending on the actual components used of course. -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=90 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46354 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
