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Bi-amping...help appreciated

I'm fiddling with my office system, and need your guidance. I have a NAD7100 Receiver, and a NAD 2100 amplifier (same amp specs) I'd like to hook up to my Totem Rokk speakers (they are bi-wirable). The 7100 receiver has jumpers to bypass the amp if desired, and a switch to convert it to a monoblock, ditto for the 2100 amp, swtich to convert it to monoblock. What's the best way to hook this system up, feed the left channel preamp output to the receiver's amp section (leave the jumper in place), and remove the right jumper and feed the right preamp output to the 2100 amp? What's the best wiring scheme to hook up the amps to the bi-wirable speakers? Want to make sure I'm doing this right. Thanks, Jeff
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alruhl
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Oops, I missed one of your questions. You will NOT want to run your speaker level out back into the input of the receiver. If you have the cable available, you may want to just run 1 pair from the rec'r speaker level out to one of the speakers and then run both rec'r preamp outs to the amp, and then the amp speaker level outs to the other speaker
alruhl
30 posts
 
You need to be very careful about the receiver and amp having different gains and power curves. You may be able to fix a small difference with the balance control. My idea, if I understand this correctly, would be to run all 4 channels to the "bi-amp capable" speakers. That is to say, use the outboard amp to run the lower 1/2 of the speakers, and the rec'r to run the top (or vice versa). You could also run 1 speaker (left) with both channels from the amp and the other (right) speaker with both channels from the rec'r. This will basically be similar to bi-wiring, or jumping, the speakers to allow the rec'r and amp to be monoblocked. Both of these configurations will allow you to use the balance control, if necessary. FYI: I asume swithching them to mono allows them to run in "push-pull" mode, which will give them better control over the speakers (more acccurate), whereas using all 4 channels seperately will provide more dynamic headroom. Anyway, it might be fun to play around. Perhaps the mono configuration will allow you to use 1 less set of IC's and speaker cables.
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