Active crossovers

KP: There is a filter prior to the driver. It is effectively the cross-over. Essentially a high pass for the highs and a low pass for the lows. As Sean points out, you should bi-pass these. However, there is a word of warning here. While the cross-over is reducing the benefit of active bi-amping, these filter networks can be part of the voicing of the speaker. Eliminating them may change the characteristic of the speaker--sometimes for the better, but depending on it's design it can be for the worse. This is an area where I would contact the speaker manufacturer and ask them how (and even if) they recommend active bi-amping. For some speakers active bi-amping just won't work very well, but I'm not familiar enough with yours to know whether or not that is the case.

Have you thought about converting them to the vr5's?

Might be a more rewarding project. Again, I'd talk to Albert or VSA about it.

Hello, Rives, I think I understand now. I have sent Albert an email asking about how to best bi-amp. From a previous email, he strongly suggested biamping but did not get into technical details.

Drrasta, yes, I have though of the Mod 5 conversion. I still would like to bi-amp them, in either form. I've checked with Albert and the crossover point between the bass and mids would not change, so the biamping would work fine before and after conversion.
Have you heard them before/after the conversion?

thanks,
KP

KP, it looks as if you were thinking about passive bi-amping. While there can be gains made by doing so, they do not in any way, shape or form compare with the benefits of active bi-amping. That is, if everything is set up right and the speakers do not have a ton of "passive parts" in them to begin with. Sean
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I though having an active crossover would handle all the problem, since it would sned the "highs" and "lows" to the resprective amps, and them have one amp on the high/mid module and another on the bass.

What I'm reading is, then, that even after splitting highs and lows into the correct speaker input post, I still have to worry about the inside of the speaker?

Wish I had a dry erase board we could share, it'd be so much simpler! I'll try anyway, this is what I thought!

pre---xo---hi amp---self-contained speaker box (high/mid)
|---lo amp--- " " " (low)

So in this case the mids/lows are phisically seperate at the speaker level. This won't work?

KP