Bi-amping Snell Speakers Anyone?

My experience is that passive biamping does produce an improvement, but it is not huge relative to the cost of buying another amp.

I've had similar experience. I've tried many amp combinations on 2 separate systems and found one case where biamping produced improvements over one amp material enough (to my ears) to keep it running in biamp mode. This is running vertical biamp configuration driving Von Schweikert VR4-III's. I also tried this with Totem Mani-2's. In both cases I asked the speaker mfg if I would be better off using biamping vs one larger amp I was trying to decide if I should buy a larger monoblock Eagle 11 vs using my Eagle 4 amps. Totem said one large monoblock would be best (which I confirmed). Albert Von Schweikert said vertical biamping would be better. The VR4's are 2 separate modules and he recommends passive biamping. I've tried many other amps and none have performed better than the Eagle 4s in vertical passive biamp.

It will be interesting and worthwhile to hear what Snell recommends . . . but I suspect you may have proven the point already.

OK so Snell says biampinng is fine but active crossovers require more expertise than I have. For now I will concentrate on room tweaks and gear tweaks since there are many known issues there. Back to the salt mine.

Old thread, but I'm a new AudiogoN member.

My primary speakers are Snell Type D's. I own two Nikko Alpha 220 amps, which are 120wpc, similar wattage to Blueskiespbd's NAD 2700's. I have biamped the D's with one amp powering the bass and one the highs. I did not experience any loudness variation between the bass and highs, as compared to just one amp. The sound was quite similar to using just one of the amps, but the bass was somewhat tighter and the overall sound was indeed slightly better.

Bottom line, biamping should work.

I must say that the Snells perform so well with one amp, that I'm not sure the second is worth the effort and right now I'm only using one.

Either way, even with the Snell D's, the soundstage, vocals and bass are incredible. Every time I sit back and do some serious listening my eyes are deceived because the singer is not in the room.

Update:

Everything is sounding good now with no issues as to balance and volume. Still doing the vertical biamping with great results.