...only for small volume control ranges with large sacrifice to the dynamic headroom...
The situation is really as follows:
Let's say you'll pick up trebble amp with higher sensitivity.
On low volume levels you'll hear more trebble even from less powerful tube amp and as volume will go up you'll achieve necessary balance that will be fine on a very small volume range. If you listen to the music that changes dynamic large, this set up is not good. In fact any set up that compromises the dynamic headroom downgrades the system and decreases its performance 'class'.
Let's say you pick up the tube amp that has same input sensitivity, but is less powerfull:
In this situation you'll have dominating low frequencies from the very beginning of the volume range...! You can certainly use attenuators for the larger powered amp but still you will face the previously described scenario with loosing dynamic headroom.
The right way to biamp without active crossover is to use 2 identical power/sensitivity amps. Otherwise you'll need acrive crossover between amplifiers and removed built-in crossovers from your speakers.
The situation is really as follows:
Let's say you'll pick up trebble amp with higher sensitivity.
On low volume levels you'll hear more trebble even from less powerful tube amp and as volume will go up you'll achieve necessary balance that will be fine on a very small volume range. If you listen to the music that changes dynamic large, this set up is not good. In fact any set up that compromises the dynamic headroom downgrades the system and decreases its performance 'class'.
Let's say you pick up the tube amp that has same input sensitivity, but is less powerfull:
In this situation you'll have dominating low frequencies from the very beginning of the volume range...! You can certainly use attenuators for the larger powered amp but still you will face the previously described scenario with loosing dynamic headroom.
The right way to biamp without active crossover is to use 2 identical power/sensitivity amps. Otherwise you'll need acrive crossover between amplifiers and removed built-in crossovers from your speakers.