First Bi Amping Experience
I just puchased a pair of Legacy Signature Se speakers. Am pushing them with my Coda CSIB . I am loving them. Was reading about bi amping for a while. Started looking for a comparable amp to run off my preamp outputs. Was not having much luck finding one in that power range that was in my current budget. Then I thought of how I run my home theater rig with a Crown pro amp. Did a little research and found the Crown XLi series of amps are a Class AB design. I got the biggest one they make and just hooked it up. I know pro equipment gets a bad rap sometimes but this really sounds good.
@Carlsbad2; True as to a couple of watts. However it's the transients in demanding recordings that eat the daylights out of watts. Particularly low frequencies. It take a LOT of current to move woofers at high SPLs with difficult tracks. That's where the reserve or "margin" that big subwoofer wattage comes in handy. In my system I added a pair of Bryston 700Bs to drive my 6 woofers (tube amp for the mid/tweets) and the difference in bass and musicality was substantial. |
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Regarding wattage and for what it's worth, I normally don't use more than a few watts per channel, but DO use every bit of my available 7200 watts at @8 ohms in one of my rooms when I want my fix, and before someone makes some condescending comment, I do it because I want to, because I can, and I am not a kid playing club music with the bass playing louder than recorded. I am a 57-year-old woman who listens to music, just like it sounded at the last live concert that I attended, the way the artist intended, and I love every minute of it when I do it, and before some know-it all tells me that I they value their hearing, so do I! By the way I used to teach a hearing conservation class and I can tell you that it's not all about sound pressure levels, it also has to do with duration of exposure and the frequencies one is exposed to. My hearing is perfect, as per my annual audiograms and those around me often wonder how it is that I can hear things that they cannot. So, enjoy your music "your way"! |
Well said @ellajeanelle. As a 62 year old man I still love the punch and slam of powerful bass. Cello, tympanies, string bass, lower octaves on the piano all demand a lot from my rig. Ditto for Rammstein's Du Hast Nich. Without slam it's just not as fun- and music should be fun. In fact I think I'll take Mahler's Appalachian Spring off my que and crank out some Benny Basssini loud enough for certain grumpy old farts to get offended. After that perhaps some Scorpions followed by a shot of Ted Nugent- like you said: Because I can. :) |
yesiam_a_pirate I think we're on the same wavelength. Saw Scorpions and Ted Nugent myself more than once! Sometimes It's just not right until it literally rattles your eyeballs and your soul 😉 |
