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Monitor close to the wall to replace Allison 4s

I have to have speakers against the wall in my office, so I have the second edition Allison 4s (2002), which are pretty impressive speakers. I am bi-amping them with 2 TAD 60s with EL 34s and they sound very good, but I wonder if a newer generation of speaker, thinking of Joseph RM7XL, Kitty Kat Revelator, Harbeth P3 ESR, The Clue or any other suggestions, would give better resolution, transparency and imaging? Can I improve significantly on the Allison 4s with a budget of $2500? Thanks!
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springbok10 OP
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Yogiboy, I am vertically bi-amping, one amp per speaker, so I could just double up the cables on each speaker. Any reason not to? Mike, what do you mean by stacking?
springbok10 OP
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Yogiboy, I am really just doubling the output to each speaker currently by sending both left channel outputs from the preamp (there are 2 sets of outputs to the amp, of course) to the left stereo amp and sending all the output of the left amp to the left speaker and vice versa to the right speaker. Isn't that what vertical biamping means, even though one amp feeds one speaker? Advantage? Double tube power to each speaker.
springbok10 OP
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Yogiboy, you are correct semantically, it is not "biamping" - Eldartford in a thread on vertical biamping calls what I am doing "Dualamping". Better?:)
Do you follow my aim and are there technical problems with it? It certainly works and sounds a lot better than when I use 1 amp conventionally.
springbok10 OP
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Anybody try the Kef ls50s against the wall?
springbok10 OP
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Almarg, I am very grateful for your input because I DO seem to be paralleling currently, as I am biwiring - that is mixing the signal to both sets of speaker posts - and I should be separating the hi pass and low pass inputs on the speakers to avoid a disaster,it seems! I can do that as I have 4 runs of single cable. Do I understand you correctly? Thanks!!!
springbok10 OP
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Al, I am both paralleling and biwiring, since each amplifier channel is driving both hi and low pass terminals- exactly as though they still had jumpers in place! But I will change that and not have any connection between the high pass and low pass terminals any longer.
springbok10 OP
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Yes, Al, that is what I am doing and in fact do double runs of Clear Day and Acoustic Zen in my home system as well (to combine silver and copper) and get a lot more air around the top end. Sorry that I have got off topic here, but appreciate your help and your suggestion, Mike. Back to the OP: So what about the Joseph RM7XL?
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