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McIntosh MC 601 Using two taps at the same Time

Has anyone use two taps at the same time 4ohms and 8ohms taps on a Mac amp? I usually use a biwire for my Vandersteen 2CE Sig II but I would like to separate the biwire as in, tap the lows on the 8ohms tap and tap the highs on the 4ohms tap to get a little more low end (bass). According to McIntosh, since Mac uses the autoformer, you can use two taps at the same time.
miketuason
miketuason OP
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So to make it more simple, if you have an 8 ohms Speakers, you use the 8 ohms tap and if you have a 4 ohms Speakers, you use the 4 ohms tap and so on. Yes?
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kalali
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That's the idea but the fact is that an 8 ohm speaker has a varying impedance across the frequency spectrum so the outcome is not always predictable. When I tried the different taps - 2, 4, and 8 ohm, with my 2Cis - biwired to a single tap, I could hear an audible difference mostly in the size and shape of the soundstage with the 8 ohm giving the widest and deepest. l'll try the multi-tap scenario soon, just dragging my feet to cut/break the nicely soldered connections. 
pops
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Miketuason, it is difficult to connect 2 spades in one tap, for biwiring, perhaps that is what the OP is referring to as well.
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kalali
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Search for spade to banana adaptor for McIntosh and there are plenty of low price high quality options out there.


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