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Monobloc vs bi-amping (and bi-wiring)

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I Biamp my Audio Physics speakers with my John Shearne amps (Int + Power) on the with one amp handling the Mid+HF and the other handling the LF and this decision was based the physical limitions of the hardware (and cost).

The Biamping certainly opened up the sound however not sure if some of this was merely the fact that the amps are less loaded (they have a an unual output config**) than cross over issues, in fact Audio Physic by default do not offer biwire.  Biamping definately better than biwiring, I did biwire with older speakers before I got the power amp but not sure whether this was because I could hear an improvement or was a victim of hype.

The mono block route I guess should theoretically sound better as you would assume better channel isolation and (quality?) of components over the hybrid int+power amp route.



** Unusual - The outut stage seems to show some sort of valve amp behaviour in that the amp is 'designed' for 6-8ohm speakers and the output for 4ohm speakers does double but in fact is slightly less than the 8ohm output.



Wahoo 100th post......got a gold star, fortunately for me not awarded for the quality of post



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