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Question about Active Bi-amping

Curious about Active Bi-Amping.

My understanding is that to setup an actual active Bi-Amp (with compatible speakers), you would need either 2 mono block amps per speaker or 2 stereo amps and a External Crossover?

Would the Crossover in the Speaker need to be bypassed or removed?

OR

If you were to do Passive Bi-Amping, you would connect each amp directly to the speaker terminals but how would you connect the Amp Signal connections back to a pre-amp or Integrated since most are only have a a simple left and right output?

Thanks

 

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audiorusty
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With the two integrated amps you mention you can only do passive bi-amping with speakers that are designed to be bi-amped. I believe you should be able to connect  all of your sources to one amp then use the preamp outs from that amp and connect those to one of the inputs of the second amp. You can then connect the speaker outs of the first amp to either the low or high inputs of the speakers and the second amp to the other speakers inputs.

You would need a different preamp/amp set-up in order to use an active crossover and unless you wanted to add subs to your system, it's probably not worth doing.

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