external crossover when bi amping?


Is an external crossover needed when bi amping speakers? What happens when you dont use one? How does the internal crossover work in a 2 way speaker when fed by 2 amps and 2 cables?
nerspellsner

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Perhaps some further explanation is needed here. If you have a two way speaker with one pair of binding posts and an internal crossover, of course, then I don't see any other way of biamping than to disconnect the tweeter and the woofer from the crossover and then connect each directly to an amp. How else can you get one channel to go directly to the tweeter and the other channel to the woofer if everything is still going through the original inputs? I have always thought that the purpose of biamping was two fold:
1. to place the crossover before the amps, and
2. to give each driver it's own power source.
Which means, you would need an external crossover.
Are we confusing biwiring with biamping?
Sonny