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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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melbay OP
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The input on amp is set at 1.4. Output gain knobs at 100 percent. No clipping or noise. God bless John Entwistle and Stanley Clark.

12many
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Are you using a Y cable to split the pre-amp output?  Are you using any crossover before the amp?  Thanks.  

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The Coda has a right and left output for the preamp. The Crown has channel 1 and channel 2 inputs. The internal crossovers in the speakers do the work acoording to   the manual.

knotscott
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What sort of improvements are you hearing in your system after the bi-amping?

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Before the subwoofer made a difference I could notice switching it in andout of system, Now it is not noticble at all. This amp is putting out 1350 watts max vs the Coda at 800 watts. I did no calibration yet. The bass does not seem to be ovepowering mids and highs. Like I say, these speakers are new to me and are not really broken in yet. I have been listening to the same music for years and now am hearing things in songs I never heard before. That may just be due to the higher quality of the speakers. I just concentrating on rock songs with great bass players right now.

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