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One Monoblock or Two?

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When driving a speaker with a difficult load, is there a difference in driving the speaker with one large monobloc or biamping the speaker with two smaller monoblocks?

Specifically, would it make a difference in driving the speaker with one 600 watt monoblock, or to bi-amp the speaker with two 300 watt monoblocks? This is assuming that each amp doubles in power as the impedance halves.
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eldartford
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Biamping would only be an advantage if you use a line level crossover, so that each of the amps only sees part of the frequency range.

Furthermore, the principle advantage of biamping is to reduce intermodulation distortion, and today's amps do not have the IM problem which existed a few decades ago.
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