Bi-Amping, best way??


I'm gonna have a play at biamping, since i have two Marantz PM6010OSE's, and wanted to know what people thought the best way of doing it was.... i'm think that i have CD into amp 1, then take tape-out from amp 1 into Aux in of Amp 2, and then have Amp 1 drive the Hi of Speaker 1 & 2, while Amp 2 drives the Lo of Speakers 1 & 2.

anyone have any thoughts in this setup, or can suggest an alternative/better.

btw the Pm6010's don't have any sort of pre-in/out.

cheers
daveb511
Run one stereo amp per speaker.. In otherwords dedicate one amp to run your left channel using the left or right channel to power the woofers and the other open channel to run the mids and highs.... This is verticle bi-amping, reason this could work out better than Horizontal bi-amping is that you can use a little longer interconnect and set the amp closer to each speaker with shorter speaker cables..

However, this is not the main reason for doing this, it is because especially if each AMP has a single power supply or transformer in it which most do unless specified as a Dual mono, than you are now Splitting the power supply with about 20 % to the mids and highs, and 80% left over to run your bass. Why? Because if you run one amps in the horizontal config for both Bass drivers in both speakers than you are now splitting the signal with less power available to the bass drive at 50% each.

Your mids and highs do not take much power at all, even if not the most efficient speaker, its normally the bass load that will cause the draw from an amps caps and transformer, so now in a verticle config you are not wasting one whole stereo amp seperating that power supply to just run both channels of mids and highs? Sorry if this is hard to understand but its as basic and graphic as I can explain on the internet.

Good luck, just think about it and it makes sense, do you want to dedicate one amp to taking on both Bass units? Or have a bigger reserve for bass current simply just talking a stereo amp per channel, by the way then you just need a basic jumper to connect the left and right channel RCA's right together on the same amp with the same signal, and you get less crosstalk as well cause you are now just running all one channel thru one amp instead of splitting it.
ok, have i understood right, if i try vertical then i... split the left signal from source and feed into l/r input on amp1, and right signal from source into l/r input on amp2, then amp1 has left and right channel into hi & lo of speaker1 and amp2 will take left and right channel into hi & lo of speaker2?

am i about there, i've orded some extra interconnects and x2 phone splitter adaptors, so hopefully can have a fiddle next few days.
I belive you've got it right. I do think it is the best way if you are using 2 stereo amps.

Enjoy,

Dan
dave@z-cars.fsnet.co.uk, Yes just simply dedicate One amp to each speaker... Run both the channels with the same signal into the speaker, for example use the Left channel of the amp to into the Low section and the right channel of the amp into the top section... ONe amp running one speaker, and the other speaker gets the other whole amps 2 channels dedicated to it. Use your splitter or jumper to give the same signal to both channels on the amp... So you take your preout of the preamp left channel and feed both the stereo channels on that amp,, and same for the right preout dedicated to your other stereo amp.
What if you are using Balanced interconnects? Are they any quality Balanced spliiters ?