Bi-amping

luvrockin
If you are looking for better performance consider getting the Bass Alignment Filter and Bi-wiring. Your speakers as is, due to the box size and the way they were tuned, will play down to 39 hz. They do not play the bottom octave. If you want to hear the bottom octave consider acquiring the Bass Alignment Filter, that they were designed to be used with. 

39hz - 20khz without the BAF
20hz - 20khz with the BAF.

The BAF would give them potential for full range down to 20 hz. But they still need to be spaced properly in the room to achieve this. I show a past pic of my 801 (room and spacing) in my virtual system.

Good luck

Depends on a lot of things, how difficult your speakers are, where they are difficult, and how solid the power supply of the amplifier driving it is.

There's one major benefit to using bi-amping however, and that is the ability to use a DSP eq on just the bass section. This allows you to get most of the benefits of a dedicated/room corrected subwoofer, without having extra hardware between your speaker and DAC for the mid-treble regions.

Best,


E

Depends on a lot of things, how difficult your speakers are, where they are difficult, and how solid the power supply of the amplifier driving it is.

Erik
801 matrix 3 (and 2) are an easy 6 ohm load with the BAF. See pic 23 on my virtual system. Easily driven by even tube electronics tapped on 4 ohms.

Hi CT,

Just looked at the Stereophile measurements. I have to say, those were among the best B&W made, at least based on that!

https://www.stereophile.com/content/bw-matrix-801-series-2-loudspeaker-measurements

I would disagree, but just a little, about them with tubes. While the impedance barely drops below 6 Ohms, the rise to over 20 Ohms at about 2 kHz (text says 15, chart says more) could cause a little trouble. I would be tempted to add an impedance correction circuit to see how it behaves.

Best,

E