H/K Signature 2.1 amp bi-amped to RTi4's.
aaharvel
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yup, for **** and giggles I wanted to run a little experiment to see how different bi-amping would sound over a regular config. and to see how gutsy my rti4's are.
In bi-amped mode, i'm thinking each rti4 is being fed between 200-225 watts with +/-100 amps of current.
The result was incredible. I didn't expect to hear much of a difference, maybe only +3db during playback. To hell with the db. increase. The amp is already a warm-sounding, full bodied amp.. but when I ran it in bi-amp mode, it literally made any brightness that might come out of the rti's totally disappear. Gone. I did all of this while running the rti4's full range and playing a variety of music- redbook, sacd, fm, vinyl.. I couldn't believe it.
As impressed as I was with the difference bi-amping made with this sleeper of an amp, I was even more impressed with the speakers ability to not only take the extra power with aplomb, but it literally transformed the sound characteristics of the rti4's themselves.. Frankly I was befuddled.
It almost makes me want to sell my csi3 and fxi3 all together and just go straight 2channel.
In bi-amped mode, i'm thinking each rti4 is being fed between 200-225 watts with +/-100 amps of current.
The result was incredible. I didn't expect to hear much of a difference, maybe only +3db during playback. To hell with the db. increase. The amp is already a warm-sounding, full bodied amp.. but when I ran it in bi-amp mode, it literally made any brightness that might come out of the rti's totally disappear. Gone. I did all of this while running the rti4's full range and playing a variety of music- redbook, sacd, fm, vinyl.. I couldn't believe it.
As impressed as I was with the difference bi-amping made with this sleeper of an amp, I was even more impressed with the speakers ability to not only take the extra power with aplomb, but it literally transformed the sound characteristics of the rti4's themselves.. Frankly I was befuddled.
It almost makes me want to sell my csi3 and fxi3 all together and just go straight 2channel.
H/K Signature 2.1+235
Jungson MagicBoat II
Revel Performa M-20
Velodyne cht-10 sub
Rega P1 Turntable
"People working at Polk Audio must sit around the office and just laugh their balls off reading many of these comments." -Lush
Jungson MagicBoat II
Revel Performa M-20
Velodyne cht-10 sub
Rega P1 Turntable
"People working at Polk Audio must sit around the office and just laugh their balls off reading many of these comments." -Lush
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aaharvel wrote:yup, for **** and giggles I wanted to run a little experiment to see how different bi-amping would sound over a regular config. and to see how gutsy my rti4's are.
In bi-amped mode, i'm thinking each rti4 is being fed between 200-225 watts with +/-100 amps of current.
The result was incredible. I didn't expect to hear much of a difference, maybe only +3db during playback. To hell with the db. increase. The amp is already a warm-sounding, full bodied amp.. but when I ran it in bi-amp mode, it literally made any brightness that might come out of the rti's totally disappear. Gone. I did all of this while running the rti4's full range and playing a variety of music- redbook, sacd, fm, vinyl.. I couldn't believe it.
As impressed as I was with the difference bi-amping made with this sleeper of an amp, I was even more impressed with the speakers ability to not only take the extra power with aplomb, but it literally transformed the sound characteristics of the rti4's themselves.. Frankly I was befuddled.
It almost makes me want to sell my csi3 and fxi3 all together and just go straight 2channel.
It will set you free!!
I haven't one single way of going multi-channel in my house other than speakers. Movies are still very cool, in 2-channel, with the right set-up"SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
