How's this one for the experts...i'm putting together a system consisting of B&W 801,s series 2, Bryston BP-25 pre amp and 4 Xindac mono blocks, One for the left woofer,one for the right woofer,one for the left mid and tweeter and one for the right mid and tweeter. Should I use xlr connects to the amps or rca from the pre amp? I will have to remove the two wires from the crossover on each speaker. Will every thing work perfectly and give me that power reserve to keep these amps in Class A with a bit of volume. I found that with running just the two monos on these speakers I had to crank the volume control 90% maxed to get the room to shake...lol. No complaint of the sound comming out of the Xindaks...just want more of it. Thanks D.
Idiotic Vertical Biamping Question
I've read a couple of detailed articles on the various kinds of biamping.
I understand vertical biamping to be: amp1 uses left and right outputs to speaker1 (we'll say that's the right speaker); one channel to woofer and one to tweeter; and amp2 does the same, but to the left speaker.
We're assuming a two-way speaker.
Now, I assume that each amp still "thinks" it is sending full-range signals out of both channels. So for amp1, let's say the right output channel feeds the woofer while the left output channel feeds the tweeter. The amp is sending information meant for the left speaker to the tweeter of the right speaker. Same problem occurs in amp2 (but possibly with reversed content going to woofer instead of tweeter, depending on whether the channels are wired identically or in reverse of amp1).
It seems to me this would cause tremendous problems in imaging. So there *must* be something I'm missing; can anyone help me out?
Also, every article I've read discourages bridging stereo amps to make them monoblocks, though the reasons vary. What are your experiences with such a setup? I was specifically thinking of getting another McCormack DNA-.0.5 and having Steve convert both amps to monoblocks, thinking this would be the best performance I could get, but maybe that is not the case?
Thanks for the insight, all.
HC
I understand vertical biamping to be: amp1 uses left and right outputs to speaker1 (we'll say that's the right speaker); one channel to woofer and one to tweeter; and amp2 does the same, but to the left speaker.
We're assuming a two-way speaker.
Now, I assume that each amp still "thinks" it is sending full-range signals out of both channels. So for amp1, let's say the right output channel feeds the woofer while the left output channel feeds the tweeter. The amp is sending information meant for the left speaker to the tweeter of the right speaker. Same problem occurs in amp2 (but possibly with reversed content going to woofer instead of tweeter, depending on whether the channels are wired identically or in reverse of amp1).
It seems to me this would cause tremendous problems in imaging. So there *must* be something I'm missing; can anyone help me out?
Also, every article I've read discourages bridging stereo amps to make them monoblocks, though the reasons vary. What are your experiences with such a setup? I was specifically thinking of getting another McCormack DNA-.0.5 and having Steve convert both amps to monoblocks, thinking this would be the best performance I could get, but maybe that is not the case?
Thanks for the insight, all.
HC