Ok Gurus:
After a long search, I finally found and Arcam P80 to biamp with my Arcam A80. I hooked them together via a new interconnect and unfortunately, had to use $2.00 18 guage speaker wire from a roll while my nordost biwire cable is reconfigured for biamp (I could start another cable battle over my perception of the difference in sound, but I digress).
Now for the questions:
When mentioning my intention to another audio enthusiest, he asked if I was going to use a crossover between the amps as there might be intermodulation as the full spectrum of sound was going to both the woofers and the tweeters. Well, I never thought of that as the manual just showed the way to wire the amps up and said it is a great idea for improved sound. Well, that part is correct as in "hello bass, nice to meet you." And, with the cheap cable, I can't tell whether their is im distortion or not, but will be getting the Nordost back soon and will surely hear any problem, so that is why I wanted to ask if anyone here has had prior experience with bi-amping? If so, did you use a crossover? And if so, how did it sound? Could I be lucky enough that one of you actually did the bi-amp with Arcam equipment and could relate your experience?
I can already tell, it was the best $500 I spent on the system.
Thanks in advance for your constructive advice.
Tom
Ok Gurus:
After a long search, I finally found and Arcam P80 to biamp with my Arcam A80. I hooked them together via a new interconnect and unfortunately, had to use $2.00 18 guage speaker wire from a roll while my nordost biwire cable is reconfigured for biamp (I could start another cable battle over my perception of the difference in sound, but I digress).
Now for the questions:
When mentioning my intention to another audio enthusiest, he asked if I was going to use a crossover between the amps as there might be intermodulation as the full spectrum of sound was going to both the woofers and the tweeters. Well, I never thought of that as the manual just showed the way to wire the amps up and said it is a great idea for improved sound. Well, that part is correct as in "hello bass, nice to meet you." And, with the cheap cable, I can't tell whether their is im distortion or not, but will be getting the Nordost back soon and will surely hear any problem, so that is why I wanted to ask if anyone here has had prior experience with bi-amping? If so, did you use a crossover? And if so, how did it sound? Could I be lucky enough that one of you actually did the bi-amp with Arcam equipment and could relate your experience?
I can already tell, it was the best $500 I spent on the system.
Thanks in advance for your constructive advice.
Tom