Is bi amping worth it ?


New thinking ? 
 

the subwoofer world is quite confusing . so I have  left that decision alone for a bit.  I have recently read where bi amping the khorns could give me the little more bass punch I am looking for. ?    The 601 mono-blocks certainly have enough power but I have a tube pre amp C-2300 that does not separate bass and treble signals so would need to add an external crossover.  
 

anyone have any experience with this ? Is this worth the effort ?  And if so any recommendations on the external crossover ? 
 

thanks again everyone. I greatly appreciate all input from this forum.  

hardhattg

There are definitely some benefits that can be had from bi-amping, but the results depend on a lot variables.  There are  a lot of ways to approach bi-amping, so your approach is best tailored to your system and goals.

Adding an active subwoofer is essentially bi-amping, and is typically one of the easier ways to add bass punch. To get more bass punch through traditional bi-amping would typically mean getting an amp or amps that offer more bass punch than what you’re currently using, or adding a way of boosting just the bass range....which I'd think would be more complicated than adding an active sub.

 

My speakers are designed to be bi_amped. They have an internal ice power750 watt amp that can be configured to drive just the bass. The external wavelet II crossover has DSP as well. I run a small 50watt class A amp for the top registers and it works really well. I don’t know how it would work on theK horns. They seem rather efficient to bi amp JMHO.

 

601 mono-blocks, that’s supper over kill for K-horns. I would not bother trying to bi-amp with that much power available. Unless you're considering moving to low power amps then maybe splitting the mid-tweeter and bass would help. That said if you’re not getting punchy bass from your K-horns I’d look at set up issue and speaker location room interaction first.

From my experience with Klipsch speakers (LaScala’s in my case) you’re better off with lower power amps, you are never using more than a few watts at best with 105bd speakers. I ran mine on 2.5watt SETs, 8wpc SET’s and some really nice 25wpc SS class A amps, and it was glorious. 600wpc is so over kill you’re barely getting that amp out of idle no reason to add more power IMO.

Subwoofers are hard to match to K-Horns but it’s possible with good quality sealed units. I would think that’s a better direction if you wanted more bass, after you address any set up issues and room interactions. You do have them in corners, right?