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Can a Magnepan 1.6 be BI AMPED?

Was wondering if anyone who owns the Mag 1.6 speakers knows if the speaker can be BI AMPEDped? I know it can be bi wired, but looking at the rear connection panel has me wondering if both terminals arent hard wired to the top terminal, allowing the two lower terminals to touch internally causing possible issues with bi amping.

Please dont respond the following receiver wont drive them, because I fully know it will. My concern is ONLY on bi amping on the speaker end. Ive bi amped so seriously hard to drive speakers and the Onkyo is more then up to the task. Specially considering I will be crossing the 1.6 over to ease the demands, and I only prefer a sub to do the grunt work. But for reference sake, here is my intentions with the Onkyo:

Im using a Onkyo nr906 right now on a pair off mmg's set to 4ohm, and they sound fantastic with a sub crossed over at 80hz. I have the ability to use the rear channels from the Onkyo in a bi amp configuration to drive a pair of 1.6's in bi amp config in a dual 4 ohm load. Should be 200 watts aprox to top and 200 watts aprox to bottom, and allow me to use the full potential of the nr906 if bi amping works in this speaker.

Thanks to anyone that has knowledge of if the 1.6 accepts bi amp config or just bi wire(which if they in fact touch internally to the top terminal, isnt worth bi wiring anyway, as its one big loop either way).
sthomas12321
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Lightminer...That capacior is really there. I have seen and touched it. Are you sure your info was from the mouth of the horse?..:-)

You can also look at the schematic of the crossover (Maggie owners group) and see the capacitor.
lightminer
164 posts
 
Yeah - that is definitely what they said. Don't know how to reconcile. I believe you - perhaps it was added at some point or electrically there is some technical way that both can be true and/or he was speaking in a more general way - certainly the 3.6 and 20.1 are wired very differently when coming in along the 2 separate inputs... Don't know!
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Lightminer...The 1.6 crossover also has separate inputs for woofer and tweeter. In stock form the tweeter input is connected by the jumper.
lightminer
164 posts
 
Right, that is what we are talking about, no? Who is on first? I was saying that I was told the separate inputs behind the panel don't really do much (and were just there for biwiring) compared to the 3.6 and 20.1 which have totally separate electrical paths if you use the dual inputs, and you were saying the opposite.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Lightminer...The woofer and tweeter sections of the MG1.6 crossover are (to use your words) "totally separate". If you don't want to biwire or biamp you connect the tweeter input using a jumper.
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