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For biamping M60s, crossover need to be removed?
#314144 07/11/10 08:37 PM
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I read on this article that in order to truly biamp, passive crossovers in the speaker must first be removed. Is this true? Im not really using 2 amps, just the surround back outlets from my SR8002 to split the frequencies and send a little more juice as can be done according to manual. I figured since I had the wire and the posts on the M60, I'd give it a try. My tyro thinking was that when you used both posts, you skipped the crossover (the sub/mid-high one), but upon thinking and reading that article, its seems to me that the split signals still will go through that crossover. Any help on this would be appreciated, I'm sorry for my ignorance on this issue.


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DreamTheater #314154 07/11/10 09:17 PM
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The article you read is correct. Not only do you have to remove the passive crossovers, you have to use amps with separate power supplies, and place active crossovers before those amps.

No matter how the receiver maker has it labeled, you're not bi-amping.


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DreamTheater #314157 07/11/10 09:18 PM
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Unless you want to go with an external active crossover, I do not think you want to bypass the internal crossover. The crossover does two things for you: sends the right signal to the right driver, smoothes the response of the speaker in the crossover region.


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just plug it in normally and enjoy, stop worrying about Buyamping. smile


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fredk #314161 07/11/10 09:26 PM
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Perhaps Chris, JohnK or another smarter-than-me guy can answer this....aside from an active crossover, is it possible to design a three-way passive crossover, but in two completely separate units?....say one part to the tweets and mids and the other part isolated for the woofer so that two amps could be used in bi-amp fashion. I guess this would be like having a two way speaker with a single crossover, and a woofer (in the same cabinet)with it's own low freq pass or something similar, and each having it's own amp supply.


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Adrian #314163 07/11/10 09:30 PM
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Sure. Some of the powered studio monitors have separate amps for the woofers and tweets. You would still need components to manage the signal in the crossover region.


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fredk #314166 07/11/10 09:55 PM
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A passive crossover is just a pair of high-pass, and low-pass filters with similar slopes. It's not one device which sends the bass in one direction and the treble in the other. It's the full circuit network which gets the name, "crossover."

I think (never have looked inside) that with the way Axiom has the removable straps between the "bi-amp" posts that they have designed their network like you're asking, Adrian.

So it goes:

One input into the low-pass to the woofers.
The other input into a high-pass for the tweeters.
The other input also split into a band-pass for the mids, but the band-pass itself is a pair of high-pass and low-pass filters paired together.


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ClubNeon #314167 07/11/10 09:59 PM
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If that is the case, should you not be able to properly bi-amp since you are not bypassing any of the crossover components in doing so?


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fredk #314171 07/11/10 10:22 PM
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No, because the amp is still driving the full frequency range. The amp which is connected to the tweeters is still producing bass, then the crossover turns it to heat. So you end up using twice as much power to get to the same volume level.


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ClubNeon #314179 07/11/10 10:48 PM
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OK, that makes sense. An active crossover would go before the amps.


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