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Maggie Bi Wire vs Active OX

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Anyone who has followed my saga knows I burned up a few Behringer XOs, probably due to the springy bananas had collapsed and were not making good contact inside the female inputs, where going 4 channel into the speakers or into the OEM XO

Now that that problem is resolved, I decided to stay with the OEM XO and biwire. I was fairly certain that it would be significantly better, comparable to the musical balance I enjoyed when bi-amping, but would one W4S 500, which doubles in 4 ohms (well sort of) be enough?

Interestingly rock causes the amps' protection circuit to kick in more than large orchestra classical. Go figure.

Anyway, this might yet resolve itself with Parasounds' new P5, 2.1 channel preamp. It has a beefier power supply and a lower noise floor, and if that's not enough it has a built in subwoofer XO

Alas, they're back ordered, but at least biwire is a huge step forward.

Follow Ups:

RE: Maggie Bi Wire vs Active OX - sbrians 15:56:45 03/28/14 (2)
Biwiring in my experience would give you only ~10 % of the benefit of even passively bi-amping, if that. And passive bi-amping gives ~60% of the benefits of active bi-amping.
- RE: Maggie Bi Wire vs Active OX - HiOnFi 09:49:20 03/29/14 (1)
  Yep, pretty much what I have noticed, but with the anticipate addition of the Parasound P5 I will b able to cross out the bass panels nd add my powered sub
  
  I vacillate about waiting for the P5 before reinserting the Behringer XO
  - RE: Maggie Bi Wire vs Active OX - HiOnFi 13:50:19 03/30/14 (0)
    Yesterday a buddy came over . let him listen then moved the speakers ~ 10" (5/5) farther apart. That helped quite a bit as they were pretty close to my vertical rack.
    
    After he left I moved them ~ 8" forward and made a similar gain, but the sound was still being held back
    
    So today I took off the Restricter plate (NASCAR reference): I removed the maggie XOs and reinserted the Behringer 3400 XO
    
    Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    
    It may not be the best XO choice, but using all the same equipment, just configured as a 4 channel amp instead of bi-wiring, it beats the hell out of bi-wiring with the OEM XOs
    
    Still in great anticipation of the P5 which also has a built in dac, which is likely to be much better than my ~ 10 yo Pioneer Elite, even with the Musical Concepts top mod including outboard PS.

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