Bi-wire or Bi amp

[Andydav66]

I have Rotel RA-1062 AMP and KEF IQ5's currently I have them bi wired to the same speaker source A on the amp. With the 1062 you have the option of running two sets of speakers A and B would this in theory giver better speaker performance if I wired the cables to different sources. I think I will lose power but this shouldn't matter as the room is medium sized. Thanks for any advice

 

[Overdose]

Bi-wiring will provide neglible differences if any at all.

Bi-amping will only reap benefits if you are using two amplifiers, as the amp will be using the same power supply for both speaker pair connections and then, any benefits will only be apparent if the speakers are giving your current amplifier a hard time in the first place.

Note that biamping in this sense is really passive biamping and doesn't give anywhere near the benefits of active biamping.

Try it and see, you have nothing to lose.

 

[Anonymous]

...Can you go into some more detail on what 'active' bi-amping is and how it differs to 'passive'?

 

[Anonymous]

...Can you go into some more detail on what 'active' bi-amping is and how it differs to 'passive'?

Afaik:

Passive biamping: Say you have a preamp and two power amps. Connect one power amp to the top two terminals of your speaker, connect the other to the bottom two. So its like biwiring, only with the cables going to the second amp rather than the first one.

Active biamping: When you use an active crossover and the signal goes into the crossover and is seperated into your tweeter signal and woofer signal. Then each signal gets its own amplifier.