passive biamping
<font color='#000000'>For biamping to really work its magic (the benefits are genuine!), you have to do it in conjunction with an active electronic crossover, and bypass the passive crossover found in most speakers.Not trivial to do but worth it from all I've heard. It's in my future plans for sure!</font>
Hi, I am new to this forum (obviously) and have been reading all the threads with biamp/biwire in the title here and at Club Polk. I was going to pm Rip but am not allowed yet, but thanks Rip, those are some good links. I have been researching whether it might be worth the trouble to passively biamp my mains for potential improvements to 2 Ch stereo critical listening to CD's currently played on my Toshiba HDDVD-(possible new Oppo BRP with SACD coming). This thread has the only recent postings close to this subject I've found. So, as I am a newbie I wondered if I should/could start a new thread (or hijack this one?) with my
specific question most aimed at
those who have tried this technique; I have no intention to rekindle theoretical controversies or flame wars. I am aware of, but not currently interested in, some of the other options such as better speakers, acoustic room treaments, external power amps, etc.
I have a Denon 2809ci (can't post link-130w/Ch into 2 Ch) set up as 5.1 so this allows me to use my unused back surround channels to passively biamp my mains, which are Polk Rt 800i (can't post link-"two-way speaker with a bass-reflex enclosure...raised driver bezel designed to reduce grille-edge diffraction for improved imaging... a single 1" tri-laminate metal-dome tweeter and two 6.5" mid-bass drivers). These have a passive 2-way xover and currently have the standard gold-plated jumpers across the 2sets of binding posts (biampable), currently wired with a good quality 12 ga 8' speaker wire. I have the speakers set to Small, crossover @ 60 Hz using the AVR's bass management to send the bass via SW out to my Polk PSW 350 powered sub (10" woofer, 100 W amp).
Everything sounds pretty good, especially using the impressive Audyssey MULTEQ XT Room equalization built into the Denon to tame my acoustically challenged rather lively 16’X22’ HT/familyroom w/ vaulted ceiling. But I'm looking for a good cheap tweak. So whaddya think?
