I had a pair of Nautilus 802's powered by a Pass Labs Aleph 5 60 watt stereo. I got another identical Aleph 5 for cheap. Nelson Pass tells me there's no way to use them as monoblocks. So I ran cable from right channel to the woofers and left channel to the mids and tweets. 2 separate cable runs. Same with the other speaker. Only drawback is the channel powering the woofs is doing 90% of the work. So I'd swap the channels once a month. This is called passive bi-amping as the crossovers are still splitting the signal. Active bi-amping is when you have an electronic crossover and it sends signals to dedicated amplifiers. This is almost never done in the home audio, but its done at every rock concert you've ever been to. Good for high sound pressure levels.
Bi-Amping with one amp?
I understand the concept of bi-wiring. My main system is bi-wired.
I am less clear about bi-amping. It is my understanding that it means one amp drives the bass side of the speakers and one amp drives the mid/tweeter range? Is that even close to right?
Anyway, the reason I'm asking is that I temporarily have a Bryston 5 channel amp and I was wondering if its individual channels could be used to bi-amp a pair of speakers (leaving the middle channel out obviously)?
I am less clear about bi-amping. It is my understanding that it means one amp drives the bass side of the speakers and one amp drives the mid/tweeter range? Is that even close to right?
Anyway, the reason I'm asking is that I temporarily have a Bryston 5 channel amp and I was wondering if its individual channels could be used to bi-amp a pair of speakers (leaving the middle channel out obviously)?
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