So what should I do with the RBH speakers?
Well, if you just want to use a single of your amp per speaker, I'd probably just wire them up as suggested by Seth=L in post 6 of this thread. Forget about the plate jumpers, unless you already replaced them.
How does one reattach a plate jumper anyways.
Unscrew the speaker wire jacks on the back of the speakers. There will be four of them. Place one plate jumper so that it's under both
red jacks, and tighten the screws down such that plate jumper is securely fastened under the red terminals only. Do the same thing for the black terminals. You will now be able to see that you have connected the red to the red and the black to the black. That's it.
Most Stereo amps I see such as emotiva don't have biamping capability , they just have one red and black for each channel.
That's right, you can't bi-amp with a stereo amp; you can bi-wire though (not advocating bi-wiring, per se).
Well, the point of bi-amping is to assign a separate amplifier to each "part" of the speakers (sometimes referred to as "top" and "bottom" or "high" and "low"). Now, if you have an Emotiva five-channel amp, you can use four of those amplifier channels to do a bi-amp setup for your speakers. You can then use the remaining channel for the center. You will have to use another amp for your surrounds (unless you have a seven-channel amp, and then you're OK).
You will need to run two speaker cables to each speaker. Remove the plate jumpers or any wire that might be connecting the "top" and "bottom" of your speaker terminals.
Split your left input signal to two channels of the amp. Using a Y-splitter is fine, and the high input impedance of the amplifier will allow you to NOT realize a loss in the signal's power. So, now let's say that you have channels 1 and 2 on the amp fed with the left output from your preamp. Run the output of channel 1 on the amp to the "top" of your left speaker and the output of channel 2 to the "bottom" of your left speaker.
Now split the right output of your preamp and feed it to channels 3 and 4 on your amp. Connect channel 3 to the "top" of your right speaker and channel 4 to the "bottom" of your right speaker.
You are now
passively biwired. Active bi-wiring is something different, and you won't want to do that unless you are ready for quite a bit more technical work, and buying more equipment. Don't worry about active bi-amping for now.
If you want to get it straight, maybe get out a piece of paper and pencil and methodically draw out what I've described above. It'll become more clear with a picture. My apologies if you are already hip to all this.
Good luck!