Onkyo TX SR605 and Biamping

[mk666]

I have noticed that Onkyo feature list contains :

• Bi-Amping Capability for Music and Movie Sound Effects
  

Anybody can explain how does this work ? I always thought that you need two amps in order to bi-amp...

 

[Anonymous]

If it's a 7 channel amp, (just guessing) and you're running a 5.1 surround system perhaps they let you use the two spare channels to bi-amp the front pair.

Would give more power, control, resolution and improve pure stereo performance.

 

[Anonymous]

Yup, that's it. Checked their website.

 

[mk666]

Great, just what I hoped.

Isn't that called bi-wiring though ?

 

[Anonymous]

No. Bi-wiring is just seperating the bass and treble drivers into two cables from the same amp channel so that the bridge effectively happens at the speaker terminals on the amp instead of at the speakers themselves. I must admit to thinking it's pretty pointless.

Bi-amping means allocating a seperate amp channel to each loudspeaker driver. So quite different! Though the same original bi-wire cable will work for both concepts.

 

[mk666]

Thanks for the explanations Will, you have been most helpful !