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Should I Biamp

Would appreciate some advice on the following.

As I have an Musical Fidelity A3 Integrated Amp and a A3.2 Power Amp. I could either use the Integrated as a Pre-Amp and therefore run only a single speaker cable (from the Power amp) to my ProAc D15 speakers OR should I run 2 sets of speaker cables; the first from the Integrated and the second from the Power Amp.

Option 1)
Integrated -> Power -> Speaker
Option 2)
Integrated -> Speaker (high) and
Power -> Speaker (mid/low)

Thanks
dtanclim

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joshcloud9
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Why! Please explain...I have heard that the tweets can take large amount of instantaneous power, is this why?

I currently have biamped an Arcam Delta 290 integrated (75w) to my B&W P4 tweets and a Rotel RB-981 (130w) power amp to the main driver.

Should I switch them round?
joshcloud9
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Thx Richard,

Well funny thing is that it sounds best using the Rotel to power everything rather than the Arcam powering the tweets?
(I have not tried it using Rotel to power just the tweets yet..)

Perhaps it is because I am using to completely different amps, so there is a missmatch or unevenness to the sound?

My B&W P4 speakers have 1 tweeter and 1 main driver each.
They have a what I lead to believe is a rather good and unusual 1st-order crossover at 3.5kHz.

So I am using the Arcam purely as a preamp, so it should have plenty of overhead just doing preamp duty :)
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