First Bi Amping Experience


I just puchased a pair of Legacy Signature Se speakers. Am pushing them with my Coda CSIB . I am loving them. Was reading about bi amping for a while.  Started looking for a comparable amp to run off my preamp outputs. Was not having much luck finding one in that power range that was in my current budget. Then I thought of how I run my home theater rig with a Crown pro amp. Did a little research and found the Crown XLi series of amps are a Class AB design. I got the biggest one they make and just hooked it up. I know pro equipment gets a bad rap sometimes but this really sounds good.

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@Carlsbad2; True as to a couple of watts. However it's the transients in demanding recordings that eat the daylights out of watts. Particularly low frequencies. It take a LOT of current to move woofers at high SPLs with difficult tracks. That's where the reserve or "margin" that big subwoofer wattage comes in handy. 

In my system I added a pair of Bryston 700Bs to drive my 6 woofers (tube amp for the mid/tweets) and the difference in bass and musicality was substantial. 

Well said @ellajeanelle. As a 62 year old man I still love the punch and slam of powerful bass. Cello, tympanies, string bass, lower octaves on the piano all demand a lot from my rig. Ditto for Rammstein's Du Hast Nich. Without slam it's just not as fun- and music should be fun.  In fact I think I'll take Mahler's Appalachian Spring  off my que and crank out some Benny Basssini loud enough for certain grumpy old farts to get offended. After that perhaps some Scorpions followed by a shot of Ted Nugent- like you said: Because I can. :)