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Message started by SeanE on 10/12/17 at 14:48:13

Title: Help with biamping - how would you set it up?
Post by SeanE on 10/12/17 at 14:48:13

Everyone, I tried to use my Rachael to also feed a solid state amp to see if I could biamp. Got nowhere fast. I added the volume-controlled preouts when I ordered the Rachael because I thought it would be interesting to try. However, all I get is "tube noise" from the preouts. I always turn it off right away because that seems like it can't be good for he system.

Any tips? Anyone out there biamping?

Sean

Title: Re: Help with biamping - how would you set it up?
Post by hdrider on 10/14/17 at 16:52:22

Sean - I used to bi-amp before I sold all my gear and committed to the ''less is more'' ideal. I have a Rachael amp which I have used to drive the RCA inputs on my Omega sub, but felt it sounded better using the high level (speaker level) inputs so now I don't use the RCA outs. I did use a separate electronic crossover (really required I think for true bi-amping) then a multitude of amps to drive the different elements in my old set of speakers. For the last three years (this month actually) I have been living, finally, my musical dream of source, amp, speaker without crossover and don't ever see my system going back. I tried to look up your speakers, but couldn't find the model.Keep us posted on your experiment and what it yields for you. Happy listening, Chris.

Title: Re: Help with biamping - how would you set it up?
Post by Carlsbad on 04/16/22 at 17:55:33

I think that if your speaker is set up for biamping, you should not need an external crossover. My Tekton Encores have a seperate crossover for the bass and one for the treble/midrange. So just plug one amp into each connection. I've been toying with trying it with an ss amp driving the bass. You do need volume control of some type on your ss amp as it is very unlikely that you will need to turn the gain down on that amp which will most likely have much more power than Rachel. However, I switched to KT88s and they have almost too much bass...Only listened to them a few hours but initial impressions are awesome. And getting used to the bass it is sounding much more natural. So the biamping experiment is not very high on the list right now.