In my experience, bi-amping has not made my systems sound better other than improving bass performance. Bass can be cleaned up or controlled with bi-amping or the midrange and top can be improved with the adding of power of bi-amping but I feel the system will sound more complete and whole when it is run on a single amp that has enough power for the speakers.
Why does bi-amping speakers sound better?
Curious why it sounds better to bi amp speakers vs just running them off one amp?
i am trying to figure out which amp to buy, I am on the fence with bi amp or not. Speakers are the old infinity kappa 8.1's. Several years ago when I was married I bi amped my speakers so each speaker was seeing two channels from a parasound hca1500, I think that's the model.... 200w x 2 going to each speaker. I also tried a single amp powering both speakers so each speaker was seeing 200w x 1.
is it that I simply doubled the power that resulted in better sound, mostly noticed the low end of the speakers was tighter, more powerful etc.... and obviously I could also play louder.
Or is is there something about letting one amp not work as hard due to only running high frequencies while the other amp gets to just work on the low end.
I am 90% sure which brand of amp I want to get, just trying to figure out if I should bi amp or not.
as a example should I go with
two 2 channel amps at 400w x 2 so each speaker would get 400x2
or should I go with a single 800w stereo amp so each speaker sees the same 800w, just with one channel of a amp
i am trying to figure out which amp to buy, I am on the fence with bi amp or not. Speakers are the old infinity kappa 8.1's. Several years ago when I was married I bi amped my speakers so each speaker was seeing two channels from a parasound hca1500, I think that's the model.... 200w x 2 going to each speaker. I also tried a single amp powering both speakers so each speaker was seeing 200w x 1.
is it that I simply doubled the power that resulted in better sound, mostly noticed the low end of the speakers was tighter, more powerful etc.... and obviously I could also play louder.
Or is is there something about letting one amp not work as hard due to only running high frequencies while the other amp gets to just work on the low end.
I am 90% sure which brand of amp I want to get, just trying to figure out if I should bi amp or not.
as a example should I go with
two 2 channel amps at 400w x 2 so each speaker would get 400x2
or should I go with a single 800w stereo amp so each speaker sees the same 800w, just with one channel of a amp