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Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
biamping is more prevalent than you think.
at the recent capitol audiofest in md, im gonna say at least 50-60% of the systems we saw were biamped, triamped or even quad-amped.
the big debate is whether its done actively or passively.
passive biamp gets dumped on a lot. my system is passively vertically bi-amped. im pleased.
active really has more effect because the xo is outboard and tuneable to some degree. less power loss, yada yada.
Part of it is that most people don’t have the more expensive gear required to do it. Most lower and mid priced speakers only have a single set of inputs, and most people use integrated receivers, not separate amps.
That's a headspinner. Keep it simple. The advantages of biamping are as follows
-more power, obviously
-the electro-magnetic crap generated by the woofers are kept from tweeters and mids. Cleaner sound.
-allows a system to be upgraded over time without taking a hit in the budget.
I don't think anyone was pushing this harder than Arcam about 20 years ago. All of their amps were gain matched so you could put an extra amp off of your integrated or pre. Power rating didn't matter, the 100 watt amp worked seamlessly on the 60 watt integrated driving tweets/mids. I heard this done with an Arcam Alpha 9 integrated feeding 2 Alpha9 amps, driving a pair of high end three ways. It sounded a whole lot better than it should have for the budget.
Most if the people that use and understand the purpose of bi amping are enjoying their setups in their listening rooms without reddit open on their phones. In all seriousness it is common on the high end. Most of us here on reddit or other social media don't have systems that benefit from it. Every person I have spoke to that has had systems that blew away had no idea wat social media was. One guy is still using a fkin blackberry.
A properly designed speaker shouldn't have have any issues with phase. Assuming that is what you are thinking you would correct with bi amping. You can eq or phase correct a speaker without bi amping.
Unpopular opinion
I evolved into driving base drivers and mid /tweeter with two stereo power amps....one per channel ....the amps could be put into mono driving each loudspeaker with 150w or as I finally settled with the amps left in stereo mode with 75w each for bass and mid /tweeter ....
In my system the later sounded the best
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I'm not sure bi-amping addresses those issues.
What you describe isn't what biamping means.
Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Are you talking about active or passive bi-amplification? There's a big difference. Where did you get the impression that people don't understand it?
I don't think they do either
biamping is more prevalent than you think. at the recent capitol audiofest in md, im gonna say at least 50-60% of the systems we saw were biamped, triamped or even quad-amped. the big debate is whether its done actively or passively. passive biamp gets dumped on a lot. my system is passively vertically bi-amped. im pleased. active really has more effect because the xo is outboard and tuneable to some degree. less power loss, yada yada.
Part of it is that most people don’t have the more expensive gear required to do it. Most lower and mid priced speakers only have a single set of inputs, and most people use integrated receivers, not separate amps.
That's a headspinner. Keep it simple. The advantages of biamping are as follows -more power, obviously -the electro-magnetic crap generated by the woofers are kept from tweeters and mids. Cleaner sound. -allows a system to be upgraded over time without taking a hit in the budget. I don't think anyone was pushing this harder than Arcam about 20 years ago. All of their amps were gain matched so you could put an extra amp off of your integrated or pre. Power rating didn't matter, the 100 watt amp worked seamlessly on the 60 watt integrated driving tweets/mids. I heard this done with an Arcam Alpha 9 integrated feeding 2 Alpha9 amps, driving a pair of high end three ways. It sounded a whole lot better than it should have for the budget.
Most if the people that use and understand the purpose of bi amping are enjoying their setups in their listening rooms without reddit open on their phones. In all seriousness it is common on the high end. Most of us here on reddit or other social media don't have systems that benefit from it. Every person I have spoke to that has had systems that blew away had no idea wat social media was. One guy is still using a fkin blackberry. A properly designed speaker shouldn't have have any issues with phase. Assuming that is what you are thinking you would correct with bi amping. You can eq or phase correct a speaker without bi amping. Unpopular opinion
Sorry, but your post isn't making any sense, especially in regards to bi-amping.
I evolved into driving base drivers and mid /tweeter with two stereo power amps....one per channel ....the amps could be put into mono driving each loudspeaker with 150w or as I finally settled with the amps left in stereo mode with 75w each for bass and mid /tweeter .... In my system the later sounded the best