Bi-Amping with one amp?


I understand the concept of bi-wiring. My main system is bi-wired.


I am less clear about bi-amping. It is my understanding that it means one amp drives the bass side of the speakers and one amp drives the mid/tweeter range? Is that even close to right?

Anyway, the reason I'm asking is that I temporarily have a Bryston 5 channel amp and I was wondering if its individual channels could be used to bi-amp a pair of speakers (leaving the middle channel out obviously)?
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" Active bi-amping is when you have an electronic crossover and it sends signals to dedicated amplifiers. This is almost never done in the home audio, but its done at every rock concert you've ever been to. Good for high sound pressure levels. "
  Active bi-amping is more common than you might think. I happen to be one of them who does this with a Xilica XP3060. It is a PITA to get started with but once learned allows you to fine tune anything. I won't be using passive crossovers in my personal system ever again. On the Klipsch forum there are a number of people doing this and you can search there for what they have done and the results. If you want the very best your components can deliver going active will allow you to do this.