Does anyone own a tri amped system in Florida I could hear?

Hi,

first I would like to say that I am in the audio industry but I'm commenting on tri-amping a system and not selling anything. I am currently fully electronic and I am tri-amping my system. For me the advantages are many.

If you look at a passive crossover and you look at the tolerance levels for each component in the passive crossover, each component has a tolerance level of approximately 5%. If the average passive crossover has 10 components then this means that the sound from the left to the right speaker can be very different by a large margin.

If you use a very high quality processor/electronic crossover that crosses over each of the six drivers individually and then the processor puts all the drivers in correct phase, then there is literally no phase issues and the sound from each driver/speaker arrives at the same time to each of your ears. I'm not saying that all passive speakers sound bad but I am saying that if the electronic processor has a very high quality external mic system and you can mic your room as will as  electronically crossover your speakers over then it's going to be difficult to get a passive crossover that can remotely mimic all these variables.

Yes you need extra cables and yes you need extra amplifiers for the six channels of amplification. But in the end you do have much more control over your room acoustics and you are receiving a more accurate representation of the original recording. It also makes your speakers much more efficient.

These are just my opinions and again I'm not trying to sell anything but rather just giving my opinion based on many years of trying passive versus fully electronic.

Cheers Robert Neill.

The Linkwitz Orion speaker system is the only one I know of designed for tri-amping. It uses three two-channel amps plus a bespoke active crossover and EQ. Designed by the late Siegfried Linkwitz: www.linkwitzlab.com

See the review at: www.theaudiocritic.com

I tri-wired my ushers using 1 pair on the bass modules and  biwire to the mods/tweeter. This sounded the best and when I asked the Usher distributor, he said that’s how he hooked them up. I used 1 stereo amp that had 2 pairs of speaker terminals for each channel

With  bryston it has on model t and electronic crossover and you can tri amp it.many big speakers let you tri amp.sublime acoustics h electronic crossover has a gain know that let's you match the volumn of each amp.dbx ,mini dsp,and old yamaha have electronic crossovers you can program. Mcintosh xrt 2k tri amp.i have tekton ulfbrich I tri amp.my infinity rs 1 b are tri amped as well as irs v.my vmps rm 40 is triamped. It allows you to run 1 or 2 kw amps to the base and less to mids and even less to the tweets then you dsp sound levels and make the graph flat.there is even a simple cell phone app that measures the frequencies. And make sure no peaks or trough.electronic crossover dsp and triamp is the next level up in audio.madisound and parts express have all the stuff for you to build.enjoy the hunt. Klipsch just put electronic crossover on some of thier speakers.you have to wounder why more manufactures are doing this electronic crossover..my legacy valor has a electronic 3 way crossover the wavelet.

@tlcocks, Making the Case for Active Crossovers vs. Passive see here.

Mike