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In Reply to: Maggies and active crossovers posted by slownlo on November 19, 2006 at 15:45:52:
It constantly amazes me that guys will spend Hundreds of $$$ on expensive passive upgrades when going biamp with pedestrian equipment will cost the same or less and generate dramatic improvements. You can ask why doesn't magneplanar (or other manufacturers) offer a biamp option? Well if they allow their customers to pick amps and crossover settings it becomes a very complicated set-up procedure and the customer will risk blowing something up. That's why on the biamp tri amp products out there you also see the Amps included in the package. I thing with the newer products like the ICE amp modules that provide audiophile performance we will see some more BIAMP producs out there. However, only in the highend speakers $5K or better.Though the cost in quantities for the ICE modules are about $350 that means the manufacturer has to bump the price at least a couple kilobucks per speaker to offer a pair of them in a biamp configuration.
Follow Ups:
Maggie 1.6's Do have a bi-amp option on the input terminals. You can either connect to the highest (of the 3) for regular input, or choose, by taking the jumpers out of the lower 2 to bi-wire the hi and low frequencies.
Granted you're still working with the stock x-overs at this point.
Jon
aka (kiefer74)
These guys are making speakers without passives for the purposes you describe.
I use the Behringer ultradrive all the time...
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