Bi-amp, Bi Wire, Bridge???


KEF 207 speakers and two Bryston 4B SST amps. The options seem to be vertical bi-amp or horizontal bi-amp. My research indicates vertical is best. What about bridging the amps and then bi-wiring each speaker? Any benefit to using an active passover and under what circumstances? I thought I had this figured out. Obviously I was wrong. Help!
bojenkins

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The KEF's get as low as 3.2 ohm and mostly around 6 ohm throughout the range. That's a no-no for bridging the Bryston according to:

http://bryston.com/BrystonSite05/pdfs/SSTAmplifiers/3B-4B-MANUAL-BRIDGED-MODE-INSERT.pdf

The 120Hz xover is suitable for passive biamping. The advantage of an active xover is removing the parasitic passive xover but, most often, that would require surgery on a PCB inside the speaker along with some deep knowledge of what you're replacing. Not recommended for a novice.