biamping question

al,
thanks for your wisdom!!! very impressive.. i know who to come to in the future for REAL info!!!
be well

Sorry Al and Kal

I bought a CJ MF 2500A in 2002 to replace my CJ MF 2100. A year later I bought bi-wireable speakers. First I bi-wired and then I bi-amped horizontally. Both times there was a significant improvement in sound quality. I had the advantage of amps with identical gain,input impedance and sensitivity.

ET

Econotweaks -- Nothing I said was meant to negate the possibility that bi-amping can produce a significant improvement in sound quality, if done right. In fact my post in the other thread that I linked to above specifically pointed out, among other things, that the sound quality of the amps may benefit from the reduction in the current demand on each amp that biamping results in.

The issue here is not sound quality -- it is how to obtain a significant increase in power.

Regards,
-- Al

Al,

Thanks for your congenial posts. But I thought the issue wasn't more power per se (that is, I didn't hear him say, I need more power, should I bi-amp?) but rather, I want to bi-amp, so should I worry about keeping things balanced between bottom and top in terms of watts, or should I supply the bass speakers (since they demand more power) with a more powerful amp, say a ss? Anyway, the OP seems to have abandoned the idea, so. . . .

I biamp with 4 150 watt monoblocks.When I first decided to go that way I didn't really know what to expect with respect to volume levels etc. What I found was that volume levels remain about the same. However, the sound is much better. There seems to be more of it and less strain on peaks. My speakers are about 90db sensitive and an easy load to drive. Bi amping makes them sound better all round but the volume levels remain the same. You may need more power all round. I like solid state for power amps matched with a hybrid preamp and phono stage but you may like something else.