mixing tube and solid state amps

Are you proposing a passive bi-amp or an active biamp? With an active biamp, it is typical for the low freq side of the active crossover to have a level control to match the two amplifiers' differences. It is highly unlikely you will find a tube amp and solid state that you like AND that also work well with your speakers AND have the same gain/input sensitivity. If you will simply use the speakers' crossover and remove shorting bars to drive the top and bottom ends with separate amps, I think your best bet would be to use the same amps.
John

Jafox, there are amps that have a gain input trim pot for gain matching, for passive bi-amping. I thought that in active bi-amping, you would want to totally eliminate any part of the speaker's crossover network. Won't just inputting into the bass and tweeter terminals still leave part of the speaker's passive crossover in the signal path?

That is what I thought I would do. What is the right way to do this? Isn't just as simple as using the binding post's on my speakers? What am I missing here. What are the advantages to adding an active cross-over, over using the speakers?

Yes, It works well. I have a C-J Premier 11 tube amp and a C-J MF2250 being fed with two sets of pre-amp cables from my C-J Premier 17LS. I have then two seperate sets of speaker cables, one from each amp to the speakers. The tube amp powers the mid/high frequency. The solid state amp powers the bass. Not all speakers have two seperate hook ups, so beware. I went to this set-up because I felt the bass from the 11 was 'lacking'. It lacks no longer, and I get to keep the sweet sounding tubes at the mid/high frequency, where they sound their best!
Regards,

Hey, don't you guys know that tube amps are just distortion mechanisms? Thanks for letting me vent.

Eric Idle