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In Reply to: RE: Bi-amping issue posted by stehno on January 14, 2015 at 17:05:33
Also, you would probably want to familiarize yourself with the subject, before expressing your strong opinions.
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If I were in your shoes, I'd want to avoid being lectured to also.
As for nonsensical? That's a tough pill for me to swallow coming from a guy who just blew one or more rails in his amps for no good reason.
Just like there's no good reason for me to become more familiar with the subject but I suspect you were seeking the so-called "best" of both worlds.
By all means, Sparky, go play and have fun.
Especially considering that you have no idea whether it's viable or not.
Here's some facts and a question for you (don't worry, it's simple):
- many people consider this solution viable, and use it for years with great results;
- I personally made sure that it provides sonic benefits;
- respectable industry figures, like A. Von Schweikert, for instance, consider it advantageous.
Question: When some random dumbass on the web, who clearly never even tried it, posts idiotic condescending lecture against it - what am I supposed to think?
Fair enough, big guy. But just to ensure I'm not the dumbass you claim me to be, I checked my amps to ensure the internal fuses are still operational. They are.
You never mentioned what it was you were intending to achieve with this configuration. It would be nice to know.
You personally made sure there are sonic benefits? Great. I'd love to hear about them.
But while you're typing your response, I'd like to reiterate that the strategy "less is more" is IMO, a much more viable strategy than bi-amping. For a number of reasons:
1. That slogan is very true in perhaps every other performance-oriented industry. Why would you think "high-end" audio is any different?
2. If you have an awareness that we are all equally and grossly adversely affected by noisy AC coming in from the street, then surely you are aware that you must properly address that noise by one of several means. Otherwise, with one power supply verses 4 power supplies and hence the entire components' internals, surely you can start multiplying and see you now have potentially 4 times the amount of noisy AC potentially inducing sonic harm on your playback system. This is not a problem if you employ proper AC mgmt. Are you?
3. Essentially the same logic applies to proper vibration mgmt. Would you prefer to have 1 or 4 components being continuously bombarded by air-borne and internally-generated vibrations (e.g. 4 power supplies)? If you've not properly addressed this area (I know you haven't) you now have not just 1 but 4 chassis' loaded with resonant energy and nowhere to go but completely dissipate within.
Or perhaps your system is already so overloaded with these universal distortions that it doesn't matter how many more components and connections and cables you add, it's already fully saturated and can't sound any worse?
There are potentially several other concerns but one other worth noting might be:
4. I have no idea if you have dedicated circuits/lines for your amps, or if they are high-current drawing amps or not. But if per chance your amps are all 1 or 2 shared circuits/lines, I'd venture the chances are pretty good you're also squashing your system's dynamics during dynamic/complex passages. Not a problem if your amps aren't starving for juice, or if you listen at elevator music levels, or if you prefer flat lifeless music.
Anyway, just a thought from a random dumbass on the web.
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