Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Bi-amplification?

Funy thing is that it usually works for me. I thought it was the same as the old one.

I tried some simple searches for old topics that had rare words in them, not used often like some obscure speaker brand name and i found nothing.
Yet if i go back to my very first fifty or so posts where i knew i had discussed the topic, i find it manually.

Even the Google search didn't find it so i lost all confidence in using the search function since the forums were updated.

Part of the problem is your only allowed to search within a 1 year gap now, so you have to adjust both time fields. For ex., older than 2 years and earlier than 3 years, pain in the you know what.....

I can still find a great post by searching for the keyword "torch", putting my name in the display name box, and searching posts older than 5 years and newer than 4.

When I think about you I torch myself.

That sounds wonderfully painful.

My M80's are bi-amped. And I like it that way.

I had the extra channels on my amp and was using Canare 4S11 quad-cable anyway, so one afternoon (many months ago) I decided to bi-amp one channel to see if I could possibly tell a difference. Just split the RCA-outs from my AVR and fed them into 2 pairs of channels on my amp. Definitely didn't use any sort of external crossover.

Well, after a few CD's worth of L/R balance listening, I was actually preferring the bi-amped channel. I swapped the channels to make sure it wasn't the speaker, and still preferred the bi-amped channel. Believing full-well that it was just my imagination, I asked my wife for help and told her that I had re-wired one speaker, and asked which one she liked better. She too, picked out the bi-amped one. We both though the bi-amped channel was a bit 'fuller' on the bottom end. The bass was just a bit better and the sound was just, well, a tiny bit more pleasant. It was subtle, definitely, and not really apparent on every recording. We just preferred it.

So from that, I bi-amped both and my system has stayed that way ever since.

If it was a completely useless feature, then why would axiom include in on their speakers?

Marketing.

What is being discussed above is not bi-amping. This article explains it in laymens terms.

http://www.gcaudio.com/resources/howtos/biamping.html