Bi-amping speakers?

[Maximus DukusErectus]

BI-AMPING SPEAKERS.....What is it good for?"absa-wootly nutin"say it again!Does it have any advantages?System?Receiver Quality?Speaker Quality?I need some insight into my reading of my "ONKYO"manual.....help a brother out.ooops,got me... I am not a Politically Correct forum poster...I am White Trash,I live in a single wide,on the "wrong side of the tracks"so to speak,I believe Pro Wrestling,enjoy Monster Truck Rallies and DUKE University Lacrosse in the wee hours of the morning ,It never bothers me that I have Budweezer cans surrounding my Barco-lounger or the Spaghetti stains on my sleeveless dingy T-shirt or that my wife thinks truck tires make good planters for our flowers ,but it bores me when my fellow man proceeds to tell me that I will see a difference between a 1080P 32" and a 720P 32" tv and I am half lit,viewing from my waterbed,and my head is 12' from the screen .When it comes to proper multichannel audio formats,Refresh rates and the such,I come here to speak and converse with the the AUDIO/VIDEO GODS(sorry,yes I know there is only one God and the plural makes me a 250BC Roman)but....the Chris/BIG/PIC/SOUND wisdom keeps me up to date and running at my best so I am always ahead of the curve with the new doublewide elite snobs that are moving into the trailer park."TRAILER PARK BOYS" RULZ ON DTV CHANNEL 101!lolOOOPS....MY MOUTH HAD THE RUNS.

[MrBoylan]

BI-AMPING SPEAKERS.....What is it good for?"absa-wootly nutin"say it again!Does it have any advantages?System?Receiver Quality?Speaker Quality?I need some insight into my reading of my "ONKYO"manual.....help a brother out.ooops,got me... I am not a Politically Correct forum poster...I am White Trash,I live in a single wide,on the "wrong side of the tracks"so to speak,I believe Pro Wrestling,enjoy Monster Truck Rallies and DUKE University Lacrosse in the wee hours of the morning ,It never bothers me that I have Budweezer cans surrounding my Barco-lounger or the Spaghetti stains on my sleeveless dingy T-shirt or that my wife thinks truck tires make good planters for our flowers ,but it bores me when my fellow man proceeds to tell me that I will see a difference between a 1080P 32" and a 720P 32" tv and I am half lit,viewing from my waterbed,and my head is 12' from the screen .When it comes to proper multichannel audio formats,Refresh rates and the such,I come here to speak and converse with the the AUDIO/VIDEO GODS(sorry,yes I know there is only one God and the plural makes me a 250BC Roman)but....the Chris/BIG/PIC/SOUND wisdom keeps me up to date and running at my best so I am always ahead of the curve with the new doublewide elite snobs that are moving into the trailer park."TRAILER PARK BOYS" RULZ ON DTV CHANNEL 101!lolOOOPS....MY MOUTH HAD THE RUNS.

In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Raw Deal, "You should never drink, and bake." The same might be applied to forum postings.

As far as biamping goes, while you can get some sonic benefits from having an amplifier dedicated to each frequency range, most speakers don't actually support bi-amping. In order to do biamping, the speaker has to have separate inputs to the low frequency and high frequency drivers, and this is generally something you only see in larger, higher end (read: more expensive) speaker designs. Also, it means the crossovers have to be in-line with the individual speaker inputs so that each specific driver only gets the frequency range it needs.

Of course, most satellite/subwoofer systems already take advantage of bi-amping by dedicating a powerful monoblock amplifier to the subwoofer channel. With the crossover frequencies set in the receiver, this allows the receiver's amplifiers to only have to worry about driving the midrange and treble frequencies, which can reduce some strain on the amps. A line-level (unamplified) bass frequency signal is sent to the powered subwoofer via an RCA cable (instead of speaker wires) and then the amp built into the subwoofer is dedicated to driving just the low frequency part of the signal.

If you're using that Energy Take 5 Classic system, then this is how your system works. The Onkyo receiver drives the high and mid frequencies for the main L, R, C, RS, LS speakers and the subwoofer's built-in amp handles the bass.

Hope that helps.

-Chris

[Maximus DukusErectus]

Thank you for the bi-amping insight Chris,and yes I need to only drink "A" glass of chianti with my dinner,and refrain from drinking straight out of the bottle as I attempt to post my nonsense.