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What do you gain from bi-amping Magnepan 1.6s or

OK, I am going to sound naive but I admit I am - simply trying to gain knowledge.
Does bi-amping mean you use one amp for each speaker and if so why? I guess this is what mono-blocks are for and I thought it was a simple case of wiring one amp to one speaker but I read a post on here where a guy was asking if it was possible to bi-amp Magnepan 1-6s and the answers seemed very technical (issues relating to crossovers etc). Anyway, I have a pair of 1.6s and I have use of Parasound JC1s but don't want to damage anything. If I decided to how would I go about this and what have I got to gain. I currently run the 1.6s with a Pass 250.5.
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Thoastrouble,

You don't necessarily need 4 separate amps to do biamping.

You simply have 2 stereo amps. One powers the woofers on both speakers, and the other amp powers the tweeters on both speakers. Of course, you need speakers that are capable of being biamped. You can tell this because they have 2 sets of speaker inputs on the back (and often have a jumper between them so that you can connect it to the amp with a simple single connection speaker cable).

Michael
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