bi amping speakers?

Question

if i bi amp my speakers using my new amplifier
Cambridge Audio Azur 340A

it is multi zone

http://www.cambridgeaudio.com/summary.php?PID=11&Title=Azur%20340A%20integrated%20amplifier

and i will be amping my KEF IQ1 Book shelf speakers with it .

If i bi amp them will it double my power, because it puts out 40w rms @ 8 ohm per chanel will it give a solid 40 to each tweeter and driver.

Answer 1

Hi mate. Bi Amping means using two power amplifiers. One amp. would power the bass/mid drivers and the other amp. would power the tweeter.This would give you 40 watts to one driver and 40 watts to the other.

Bi Wiring means connecting two speaker cables from the Amplifier speaker terminals to the back of your speakers .One cable to the tweeter and the other cable to the bass/mid.Since all the frequencies are in both cables each terminal on the speakers only accepts its own frequency range.Therefore the signal is split without going to the crossover components in the speaker.You still only get 40 watts to each speaker because you are using one amplifier. hope that helps.


By the way how does the new amp sound ?

Answer 2

No, it's still the same amplifier, so you wouldn't be getting any benefits of "bi-amping".

This amp is designed to allow "bi-wiring", which is not really a useful thing in the first place and would prevent you from hooking up B speakers if you wanted to.

Best advice is just hook it up to the main speaker outputs, it'll sound great.

Answer 3

hook it regular lower the ohms beeter the power