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

Utility is one thing; customer demand is another. Sometimes they coincide, sometimes they don't.

good point.

It's a fact that your M60's support it. So if your receiver supports it amd you've got the extra channels and the speaker wire lying around, why not try it? It won't cost you anything, and you're certainly not going to cause any harm to the system.

Maybe it'll sound better. Maybe it'll sound exactly the same. Maybe it'll sound worse.

Whatever the outcome is, you can easily decide for yourself.

As I said, I believe that my M80's sound a tiny bit better when (pseudo) bi-amped. That's all it took for me. Is it in my head? Maybe, maybe not. But that's all that the enjoyment of music is anyway.

I have to agree with Peter, try it and decide for your self if you like what you hear.

But do keep in mind that your mind can create its own reality.

I love bring back threads from the dead

The search feature isn't great, true. I think the worst part is that it doesn't let you search past a year; Lots of info not searchable that needs to be asked again.

Back to biamping. Since I have two extra channels on the MPS-2, I'll biamp my M60's with Canare 4S11 wire. I don't have an external crossover but I'll give it a shot anyway since I have two Amp modules sitting idle. At least they are separate amps with independent power supplies.

Try it both ways and let us know your thoughts.

Mistico, don't waste your time. I had the MPS-1,as most know, that kept shutting down at louder levels. Lonnie at Emotiva said to try bi-amping by removing the clip on my speaker terminals and use one amp for the woofers, and the other for the upper drivers.

I told him that others say this is not 'true' bi-amping because of the crossover in the speakers. He said everyone at Axiom telling me that was nuts.

I will say that there was absolutely "no" difference. Any gain, was so minimal a person could not audibly notice.

Actually, you are all wrong. Bi-amping (two amps together) originated shortly, after the advent of 4 ohm speakers.
This allowed owner's of 4 ohm speakers to continiously enjoy their music, using the second amp..........after the first amp would shut down.

I have a few questions that will answer certain things for me.

The M60/M80's have posts for biamping. After reading, now understand the differences between passive-biamping and active-biamping(true biamping)
My questions are:

1. Do the M60/M80's have a crossover for the lower frequencies/bottom half and one for upper frequencies, 2 crossovers total?

2. If they have 2 crossovers, is the bottom one connected only to lower binding posts and the top one to the top binding posts, or do both sets of binding posts go to the same crossover?

If each set of binding posts go to separate crossovers, I'll do passive biamping to try out at least. If they both go to the same crossover, then I won't bother.

Thanks for all the info on this.