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RE: Two Scott 299s to one pair

Posted by DaveV (A) on January 4, 2017 at 13:38:57

In Reply to: Two Scott 299s to one pair posted by jack3 on January 4, 2017 at 10:13:01:

Your wording is kind of confusing especially when you mention "bi-amp."

I think your talking about switching both 299's to mono input so that both channels receive the same input, then switching one 299 to play channel A and the other 299 to play channel B.

If that's the case your only using one channel of each 299 or about 17 watts for each speaker. No better than just using one 299 for a pair of speakers in terms of available output power.

To utilize the output of both channels in one 299 of around 34 watts, you'd have to bridge the speaker outputs of both channels and I'm not sure if that's so straight forward in a 299 or not.
Best to wait for a reply from someone that can answer that.

If you really do mean "bi-amp" each speaker but without adding another component like a bi-amp xover, I guess you could do that with one 299 per channel or speaker but you'd have to split the speaker xovers in the right place to avoid burning out the midrange,tweeter or both since that setup will send low frequencies to both and you still need the speaker xovers. Now you'd have 2 sets of inputs per speaker.

You'd have control over the shelving of lows and highs in each speaker with the balance control, control over the bass to the woofer. control over the treble to the mid/highs with each 299 and you'd have the full output of each 299 per speaker but the other potential advantages of bi-amping won't be there.

Unconventional yet interesting idea if you have two of the same integrateds unless I'm overlooking something.

Edits: 01/04/17

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