I’ve been working for GeekSquad HT for 2 years now and when I asked a co-worker who’s a 10 year vet with the company, he had zero comprehension of the bi-wire method!! Haha This is the best breakdown on UA-cam 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Have no fear TechnoDad is here!! I’m gonna start playing your video in every clients house!!
I always thought bi-amping meant you had to use two physically seperate amp units, but this is the first video I've come across that explains how you can bi-amp with one power amplifier/receiver. And mine also happens to be a Denon. So thank you!
@@TechnoDadI’m just asking if my speakers have the ability to bi wire and bi amp provided two sets of biding posts but my receiver just has spring clips for speaker outputs should I just run two equal lengths of speakers wires out of each speaker terminal .. one to the top one to the bottom ??
This is the First time I Bi Wired speakers I did it with my Cambridge CXA80 to a pair of Polk RTi A5's and have to say I am amazed at the results. The separation between low and highs was notable and improved detail and sound staging that after listening to them single wired. I am keeping it bi Wired. I would say it's down to the excellent crossover in the polks
I just biwired my Polk 706c center speaker, and it definitely made difference! More clarity and contrast between high and low. So many people says it won't make difference but it was like night and day for me.
@@TechnoDad YOU need to revisit this video.. Bi amping involves using two amps. What you called bi-amping is actually Bi wiring. The best Bi amping i have seen is a tube power amp feeding the high frequency posts and a solid state amp feeding the low Frequency posts
@@MrAustrokiwi You are wrong. Technically speaking, yes it is still bi-amping with an AV receiver/integrated amplifier because they use separate amplifier channels and 2 separate amplifier channels are running to the speakers. So @Techno Dad is correct here. BUT - yes bi-amping with separate good quality amplifiers or a pre processor and dedicated amplifier would likely be better because you have more power going to the speakers. Nearly all AV receivers are only rated for 2 channels and are pretty underpowered when you connect 7+ speakers.
@@stonecoldcustoms YOu are absolutely farcically wrong Are you the person who told this channel what Biamping was......Go read the manuals. I challenge you show me one amps manual that says biamping involves one amp and two sets of speaker posts on that amp. Every manual I have read calls it bi-wiring. Every one who know Hifi knows bi amping needs one separate preamp feeding into two separate amps... that's why its called bi amping... it is very different to biwiring that just involves to sets of wires ( manual that says it the way you do. Put up or shut up: In other words provide some proof. here is a link to another manufacturer that calls it the way I do www.qacoustics.co.uk/blog/2016/06/08/bi-wiring-speakers-exploration-benefits/
I think the part ppl miss is that using the balance on a bi amp set up allows you to lower the volume of woof or tweet independently, you can do this without changing thier respective frequency. Its great to be able to drop your overall tweet volume if your getting tweet stress..lol..
It's important to know that your speakers with dual binding post have to be able to to be bi-amped.not all speakers are able to to do this.if they're not designed for this.you WILL damage them.some are only able to be bi-wired. Love the videos,lots of information.
You need to have 4 binding posts to the amplifier speaker terminal section to do the bi amp and the amplifier must be capable of doing that not only of a matter of power but also as to allow you to function it. To understand that perfectly, have a look to official site of Accuphase amp, for example A 47, or other and check the bi- amp/bi- cable section in the manual.What you also will notice is that whichever function you choose, you will have to move a selector that sets the equipment accordingly. I also want to make clear that i am not doing a commercial for this brand, but is the simpliest example for someone to understand it due to visualization.
@4:30 on that picture of Bi-amp, I was wondering if it would be OK to just keep the metal links (clips) connectors IN, and do Bi-amp that way. That way I thought even more power would go to the low Frequency (bottom) and more than enough would still be available to the top high frequency, right?? The Speakers handles up to 300W. I would add 2 channels from the amp - 210 W each (total of 420 W) to that speaker. Thanks.
Ok help me out so i bought bi wireing wire so i would just put the black in the black on amp and red in the red on amp, then the other side has 4 connectors 2 bl 2 red soni would just plug them in to my Klipsch 600 red to red amd black to black or is there another way?? I using a Onkyo 6100
My home theater set up 9.1.6 my receiver denon avrx6500 11.2 channal but i used audio source amp210 for atmos 4celling speakers.for the rest of my klipsch speakers to get better sounding what kind of amplifire i have to buy.thank you
I have a Klipsche ProMedia 4.1 system with subwoofer R and L front and R and L Rear. the speakers get there power from the subwoofer. If i have 2 more of the satellites can i hook them to the amp so i have 2 R and 2 L front speakers?
So if I understand, with my 2 channel receiver, I have speaker A and speaker B leads at the back. So I can do it different than you did? I take L and R of speaker A and wire to top posts tweeters of left and right speaker separately. I take L and R of speaker B outputs and put them on L and R lower binding posts of speakers separately. Then select both A and B on receiver. Mine is not a surround receiver. It's an old 90s pioneer audio receiver. 100w per channel at 8 ohms.
Hi! If it’s a two channel amp, then you are not bi-amping. If you want to bi-amp, you would need two channel or amps per speaker. So you would need four channels to bi-amp two speakers.
@@TechnoDad so if I did what I said above what is that? Running A outputs to highs and B outputs to lows? Taking 2 separate speaker outputs. I can run A or B or A+B (meant for 4 speakers.)
Awesome video, most accurate statement of all time is that audio is subjective!. On the note of bi-amping though I found it is indeed VERY useful for certain speakers that are known as power hungry such as mid/high end polk speakers. Instead of purchasing that extra amp to give you another 100watts a channel to truly appreciate the speakers you can bi-amp your setup usually with your existing amp. More power on on low power speakers doesn't make sense for sure, if anything you'll accidentally blow them when that dumb friend or whatever cranks your system up to max and your heart sinks from the pops n fizzles. Just my 0.02 Great vid!
On the same AV receiver using it only in stereo, what about using your pre amp out on your surround back and connect it to your pre amp in on your front speakers. Will that up the wattage to your speakers?
I have decided to connect two (2) sets of speakers to a Yamaha 6140 A/V receiver. The speakers: Bose 4001 + Advent Jade towers. The wire 16 gauge speaker wire. The problem is after the connect was made there was no sound. The receiver powers on and nothing. Settings were checked and still no sound; secondly I was gifted a Kenwood KM-897 amp. I would to connect all together with a 42" Vizio Smart TV. I need your guidance, Obi Wan !
I have Yamaha NS555 with Yamaha receiver speakers A to highs and speakers B to the lows. Wonder if better to split them as speakers A to 1 tower and speakers B to other tower?? Hmmm
What if my 5.1 surround amplifier does not have that Bi-Amp option? Can I just still run a second cable? So that I have more power? Since my amp delivers half te power of the speaker.
So I finally got my first set of Klipsch floorstanding speakers used (R-26Fs) of course with the jumper plate missing and the balance feels really off center heavy. It could be and probably is my receiver (a yamaha HTR-5740) since this wasn't exactly a well thought out purchase, but a quick one after my old receiver died. I don't know much about the receiver it's just what I could get in an hour with no more home theater stores near me, no idea if the A and B for left and right speakers have separate amps, but I gotta get it sorted.
Is your wiring method to run 2 wires from amp out (at 2:30) exactly the same as keeping the gold plated connectors bridging the posts on the speaker end...? I guess what I’m asking is ...What does removing the bridge do to the speaker?
Thank you so much this video was extremely helpful!! I have a Denon x3500h that was meant a a different pair of speakers. I got rid of the old speakers and upgraded to rp 8000f and a rp 504c. I thought I needed a separate amp to power my speakers but I will just bi amp instead since I will only be doing a 5.1 channel system. Thanks again!
Good video. I have a question. I’m making some DML speakers. Each channel has two panels. One for high frequency and one for low frequency. I’m using a BK Pro 10M preamp and a generic theater amp for stereo. I need separate speaker wires going to each panel (total of 4, two per channel). What’s the best way to hook this up? Thanks, Paul
Hey man thank you for letting me know the top binding post are for the high end and the bottom for the low. These speaker companies leave little things like that out of documentation, really helped me out.
My advent as2's are bi-wire, tried to use the top as highs only and the bottom as just low-freq. But it didn't work. They just passed the bass and the high was only tweeter.
I think that bi-amp and power output is two different things and if you set your system to bi-amp, you will NOT get more power from your amplifier (although it will be used two amplifiers for one speaker channel). Because total power for one channel is for full frequence range (20Hz - 20kHz). What you get is more clear sound because each amp can focus on minor frequency range. I tested this on my Yamaha RX-V1900 and Floorstanding speakers Mission 783.
Great video! Question: I am thinking of buying a pair of Klipsch Reference R-26FA Dolby Atmos speakers. I have an old receiver with only right & left speaker outlets. These speakers have 2 speaker terminals: one for the main drivers and the other for the Dolby Atmos. Would I be able to run a speaker wire from the main driver terminal to the Dolby Atmos terminal and then to my reviver?
Hi, excuse me for my English. I didn't understand how the signal goes from the main avr to the other Amp. If I would to get in series two speakers, losing an half power, should I add power bi-amping those channels? Thank you a lot.
I don't have the option 9.1 bi amp. It only gives me 9.1 or 7.1 bi amp and when I choose the 7.1 bi amp, I cannot change the bi amp assign. It's set to Height 2 and grayed out... Any idea why? I got the Denon AVR x3700H
It is necessary to connect speaker with two binding post with bi -wire or bi -amp or we can connect like any other speaker ?. Can we remove that jumper without doing bi-amp or bi-wire??? PLZ ANSWER......
Yes good video as of now I am passive bi amping with my two Parasounds 2125 models .So my DENON in the PREOUT section L and R goes to the first Parasound which does my woofers and it loops to the second PARASOUND for my tweeters only . Should I have the first PARASOUND do the high frequency first and the second one do woofers? Or leave as is Parasound 1 does woofers bottom terminal of my speaker cabinet. and the second one does tweeters? Upper terminals.
Hi Andrew! I don't think it matters what order you power the system with. Have you tried using an RCA splitter (amzn.to/2F23KLX) so you don't have to loop it to the second amp? Just take that one signal and go directly to each amp.
Originally bi amping atleast in car audio was meant for sending separate amplified signals to a three way set of speakers so that your main drivers could receive lpf signals from the sub channel and full range signal to the mids and highs to be filtered through their respective crossovers so yes in theory it can add “wattage” by using a separate channel on your avr to run the separate drivers, tweeters etc but I believe the point is to be able to send separate amplified signals further defining the sound of the system. Although I’m not as of an expert in home audio as much as I am car audio so i could be wrong.
I have a question. I have klipsch kf28 which needs150w all the rest of my speakers require 90 and 80w. My reciever is a vsxlx302 which is 100w per chanel. Should i biamp to get the extra 50w thats needed and have an extra 50 w for the kf28s?
Hi, I have a ? I have marantz sr7013 avr I also have an old 2 channel amp so if I wanted to biamp my 2 front paradigm studio 60 tower speakers do I just run a single rca cable to my left & right pre out on my avr to the left & right channel of my amp & then just run my speaker wire from the amp to the 2 front upper posts of my speakers? Because when I do that I don't really hear a difference. Thanks!!
I'm considering using this process for my Klipsch 620, just want to make sure I understand correctly, using my Yamaha M-60 which has 3 two channel speaker outputs, I can bi-amp from speaker A & B to the dual binding posts for the lower & higher frequencies? Thanks in advance!
Question: If I choose not to bi-amp or bi-wire, and leave the metal connection plates attached, does it matter which posts I connect my receiver too? Should I connect the Hi or Low to the receiver? I appreciate any advice you can share!
I'm telling you... the best straight forward explanation!! THANKS. (just one question : if I Bi-Amp, and the power go over and above the wattage the speaker is designed for (ex. speaker handles 300w, but by Bi-Amping , there will be a total of 350 W pushing the speaker! Is there a problem? Will it wreck the speaker?. ). ... and my logic view here: Bi_wire = should NOT have any changes at all. Why?? = on the amp output plugs, the wires are connected to each other (either via metal-to-metal, banana / hole / etc etc), so the electricity going through one wire should be the same to the other wire. So, whatever electricity arriving at the speaker will be exactly the same, no matter if it comes by one wire (with bridge between poles), or 2 wires (with no bridge between poles).
Thank you Marcio!! It’s better to overpower your speakers as opposed to under powering them. So if you’re over by 50 - 150 watts rms you should be fine. Having that extra headroom for dynamic shifts in your content is clutch. So in bi-wire the amp should see two speaker which means you are connecting in parallel. This would cause the amp to see half the ohm load. So we would take 8 ohm speakers down to 4 ohms and the amp puts out around double the power. That’s the idea. Not really sure if it works that well. I didn’t notice much difference when I bi-wired the speakers.
I have a 5.1 channel Yamaha RXV385B receiver and a pair of bi-amp able nf160 tower speakers. I noticed that you can select either 2, 3, 4, or 5 speakers in the receiver’s settings. When I selected 4 speaker mode and placed the receiver in "5 channel stereo" mode it sent the same signal to all four speakers so I was wondering if there would be any noticeable benefit of using the fronts and surround channels to bi-amp these speakers? I feel its a bit better sound quality. Please let me know your opinion
Hi Techno Dadl, I have an Denon AVC X6500H i completed all speakers connected calibrated, excepted (Height 2), I connected my Blu-ray player HDMI Audio/Video to my receiver HDMI blu-ray, HDMI CD to receiver CD, coaxial to receiver DVD coaxial, when play CD with coaxial or HDMI CD no problem, when play Blu-ray Disc have video and no sound. Would you please give me some solution about my problem, Thank You.
I just want to hook up my RP-8000 2 gen to a stereo. I have six post on the back of my speaker. I am getting no sound at all. I have been out of this for awhile so not really familiar with bi wire.
You bring up an interesting point, but then gloss over it. Bi-amping and/or bi-wiring hi end speakers are for 🎶 music listening and not so much for home theater set ups. I was actually surprised the Denon had a bi-amp setting on it...a loudness button probably accomplishes the same thing. Also, couldn't you do a Speaker A to top and Speaker B to bottom post configuration? Anyway, cool video!
I have a yamaha rx-a3020 (yeah it's old and out of date) and don't have the on screen options of your denon to tell what speakers to connect if I were to want to try to biamp my rear speakers what outputs should I connect to? right now they are in the surround position should I connect to surround back? I have spare wires so I'm curious to see if this helps my rear presence. Lastly will this be bad to do since my front and centre speakers don't have the bi connectivity?
Thanks for the explanation! I'm upgrading to Polk S55 towers from Infinity References. I have a Pioneer Elite 9.2 receiver but after moving into a smaller home, I only run a 5.1 system.
Hey got a quick question can I add another center channel speaker on top of my center channel speaker by just going from one center spkr to the other? Will it effect the performance of those 2 speakers as apposed to just using 1.
So I could use some help. I have a Marantz 7011. I have a 5.2.4 setup. My plan was to use the Bi-amp feature to power my fronts, and the same receiver for my center and surround R/L speakers and use a separate amp to power my four Atmos channels. I was not able to find the configuration that would allow me to do this. In the video you have a 9.1 Bi-amp option; my Marantz, doesn't as far as I can tell. So is my only option to Bi-amp the front speakers with a separate?
I want to bi-ware my center speaker but I have these clip type connectors on my amp for the center speaker, instead of a banana plug connector. You know the one where you simply plug in the bare wire. Can i bi-wire with this?
If you have speakers that are biwireable but you only have one set of speaker wires and have the bridge plate in place. My question is if it is better to connect the one set of speaker wires to the low-frequency or high-frequency posts? I have always connected to the low-frequency post given that bass response requires more power than treble, so, my thinking is any reduction in signal strength going over the bridge plate should have less of an effect on the treble than on the bass response. I am curious to know if you all agree or have a different perspective that i may not be considering.
This is a great explanation and explained properly but unfortunately I have 4 wharfedale diamond 220 and 230 speakers so my amp only allows 4 speakers into one input each so I wouldn’t be able to bi amp without it sounding the same cause so many wires in one input but I’ve done it before and did hear a difference
Polk Audio RTi A7.....wondering if I take the shorting bar out, can I connect the Front of a Pioneer SX 315, 5.1Receiver, to the High side of the Speaker and the Rear/Surround to the Low side of the RT Ai7? There is NO mention in the Manual regarding what to use, 5.1, 7.1 or 9.1etc.
This wouldn't work because the (rear/surround) is dedicated for rear surround effects. So if you used this channel without being able to (assign) it as front right and left, you would be getting the rear/surround effects coming out of your front speakers.
Hi, great vid! I have a Kenwood 104AR Receiver and a couple of Infinity Kappa 5.1 series II speakers with 4 post. The Kenwood has two channels with two speaker terminals per channel. Can I Bi-Amp these speakers with this receiver by just hooking each speaker up to both channels? Thanks in advance, Mark
Hi TechnoDad, I have a Wharfedale Diamond 9.5 Floor Speakers. It has for terminals, which is the recommended connection, High Frequency or Low Frequency Terminals for Standard Connections. I don't want to Bi-Wire. Thanks!
Hello sir, I have a question - Can I connect 2 Polk rc80i or Rc60i ceiling speakers in one single channel of Denon x2600h ?? Denon X2600h is a 5.2.2setup can I extend it upto 5.2.4 by adding 2 more atmos Speakers .. total 4 speaker in 2 channel .... Is this possible??
Excellent presentation and clear explanation! Well done sir. I call the metal bars that connect the speaker terminals "Jumpers". I also do not personally choose to bi-amp or bi-wire. I tried to bi-amp using the height channels on my receiver several years ago and did not hear a difference in my setup. I'm wondering if you bi-wire, if you change the resistance on the amp from say an 8ohm load to a 4ohm load which would cause the amp to send more power to each terminal. For example, my Acurus A200 is 200 x 2 @ 8ohm and 300 x 2 @4ohm so I'm thinking if someone wanted to bi-wire, they would be providing more power to their speakers. Let me know if I'm correct in my thinking on this.
Thank you sir!! I think you're right. If you connect two speakers in parallel like bi-wire suggests, the amp should see half the ohm load. I remember this from my car audio days. Here's my question though, the full Klipsch tower is 8 ohms, but is each section also 8 ohms? I'm not sure about that so I didn't want to put that in the video. Would you be able to find out through your Klipsch contacts?
Me too! Oh the good ole' high school days of car audio. I had a pair of 12's connected to a 2ch Rockford Fosgate Punch 45 amp and I remember the amp saw the speakers as a 4ohm load because the speakers were an 8ohm load. Hmmm....that is a good question. I'm not sure what the rating on each component is individually. Let me reach out to Klipsch and see if I can find out.
I have reached out to Roy Delgado (Engineer at Klipsch). I know he didn't design the RF-7 III but he may know or at least know who to get me in contact with. Will let you know what I find out.
I don't think it should make a difference.... The crossover is "split" into 2 pieces and the jumpers parallel the two, yielding an 8ohm speaker. If you remove the jumpers and feed the speaker with 2 wires from one amplifier channel you haven't really changed anything - the paralleling is not at the amplifier instead of the speaker. Another view.... the tweeter is 8ohms above 2kHz, and high imp below. The opposite for the bass 8ohm below 1kHz, high imp above. Parallel these and you get (tweeter) 8ohm//high imp and (bass) high imp//8ohm - effectively 8ohm at all frequencies. The amp is still handling the full frequency range, so working just as hard. The advantage is that you've effectively increased the cable size - which may have an audible effect..... Bi-amping, as described, has 2 amplifiers handling the full range with each drive unit discarding the rubbish it can't handle. If you have spare channels, try it! But don't buy an extra amp if you don't!!
Hi there! Incorrect. The high and low frequency speakers are connected in parallel either at the speaker connector (in single cable mode) or at the the amp connector (in bi-wire mode). So, as long as you are using decent cables, there should be no significant difference in this case. However, when bi-amping, what you are really doing is connecting to one amp a part of the electronic load (the high frequency speaker) and to the other amp the rest of it (the low frequency speaker). So here, yes, there should be an impedance increase to consider. Cheers!
Hi! What kind of Atmos setup are you running? 7.2.4? If you have two channels you are not using, you can bi-amp your mains with whatever pair you are not using (surround back, height 2).
This may be an obvious question but it’s stumped me and no one has mentioned it in their videos. Let’s say a receiver has an A channel and a B channel. There are 2+ and 2- on each channel, so 4+ and 4- all together. When bi-wiring, do you run them on the same or separate channel? My channels are 4~16ohms separately and 8~16ohms when used together.
Quick question. Which channel on the amp goes to which plug on speaker. Does the main one go to the low and the bi amp go to the upper plug on speaker or does it matter?
Does make any difference, if I connect lets say FRONT channels to Low Frequency input and SURROUND to High Frequencies, when Bi-Amping? Can't find it explained, and I dont want to brake my twitters with too much power.
I have the same question....Polk Audio RTi A7.....wondering if I take the shorting bar out, can I connect the Front of a Pioneer 5.1 to the High side of the Speaker and the Rear/Surround to the Low side of the RT Ai7? There is NO mention in the Manual regarding what to use, 5.1 etc.
I have a Harmon Kardon receiver that is 5.1 surround sound capable. At this time I am not using the surround sound speakers. I am only using the FL FR and C. Can I use the surround sound output terminals from the receiver to bi amp my bi amp Energy speakers?
I have an amp that comes on when it's hooked up correctly on my Sony str-dh820 but my receiver had the malfunction code and had to take all wires off and now starting from scratch and can't figure it out. All it would do is just add more Watts per channel and sounded so much better
Man, I was connecting the HF cable to the 2nd set of terminals and wondering why I was getting no HF. Didn’t consider both cable going into the same terminal. Thank you for this! Out of interest, what is the 2nd set of terminals for then? A surround sound set up?
I did the bi-amping, and the sound - even after recalibrating the speakers - was muddy: powerful, but imprecize bass, very harsh highs, mid was not creating any room. One cable is a shorter 2,5mm2 cross surface I used for the highs, the other one is a longer 4mm2 cross surface that I used for the lows. Is it the amp that is crappy, or the cables really have to have the same properties to do bi-amping? Of course, I removed the interconnecting wires between the speaker poles to keep the right impedance. Out of curiousity, I swapped the pairs in between high and low posts, and it didn't really do much difference, I expected hissing or lost sound due to filters of the speaker. Any tip? I have a Pioneer SC-LX88, I used the Top middle for highs, Front for lows as per the manual.
Great video sir! I have a specific question and the manual for my new speakers is vague and general for multiple speakers. I bought a pair or Kilpsch R-625FA speakers. These have the Dolby Atmos speakers built in on the top. They have 2 sets of posts in the back. On each speaker, I connected one set of posts with wires to the "Front A" of my Sony receiver. But where should I plug in the other set to? for the top atmos built in speakers? The options on my receiver are either "surround" and "surround back/height" I'm a beginner so any help would be great. I learned about banna speakers and how to wire through your other videos but I'm kind of stuck on this and can't find answers. I hope this isn't a dumb question thank you for your time!
Can all speakers in Yamaha 583 be, bi - amped. As there's not much power in the receiver, I need to know whether bi amping could make a difference. Thanks
Great video, i wish it was longer. So what if u have speaker dual posts and dont bi wire? Whats the difference in sound? I tried biwiring and realised now after watching this video i was doing it wrong.
Im buying a new receiver soon and im using a Klipsch RP-280f surround system(ill probably add two atmos speakers aswell) . Would you recommend to get a receiver with bi-amp capability ?
Hello mate , I really like your true answers Regarding bi wire or bi amp , I have Yamaha rx v 1700 , please let me know how could I do bi amp on that and right now I m playing 4 tower speakers on two channel ( using 2 front channel) and j want to hook all of them with my amp , please let me know how I can hook 4 towers on my amp , I know so many questions but please let me know Thanx
What if I don't remove the clip between the binding posts and connect two separate amps, one to each set? I don't want to try and damage anything. Will it work for both amps (one at a time I mean)?
⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
01:00 Dual Binding Posts?
01:41 Bi-Wire
04:15 Bi-Amp
06:17 My Results
07:26 Should You Do This?
Thanks!
After 1 hour surfing youtube, finally someone who explained this!!! Thank you
Sorry girl but you have been misleaded
Oh my goodness right. Your the best thanks man. Much love.
I’ve been working for GeekSquad HT for 2 years now and when I asked a co-worker who’s a 10 year vet with the company, he had zero comprehension of the bi-wire method!! Haha
This is the best breakdown on UA-cam 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Have no fear TechnoDad is here!! I’m gonna start playing your video in every clients house!!
LOL! Thanks, man! I appreciate the support.
I always thought bi-amping meant you had to use two physically seperate amp units, but this is the first video I've come across that explains how you can bi-amp with one power amplifier/receiver. And mine also happens to be a Denon. So thank you!
You saved me lots of time and heartache. Not to mention, of all the videos regarding this subject…yours was the easiest to understand. Thank you!
You're very welcome! I'm glad you found my video.
What if u just have spring clip terminals? Just two sets of wires in each?
I guess, but if the amp can't handle that ohm load, it might not be a good idea.
@@TechnoDadcorrect me if I’m wrong but bi amping doesn’t change ohm load nor does bi wiring
@@TechnoDadI’m just asking if my speakers have the ability to bi wire and bi amp provided two sets of biding posts but my receiver just has spring clips for speaker outputs should I just run two equal lengths of speakers wires out of each speaker terminal .. one to the top one to the bottom ??
@@mikehimes4833 If your speakers have two sets of binding posts, then yes, they can be bi-wired.
This is the First time I Bi Wired speakers I did it with my Cambridge CXA80 to a pair of Polk RTi A5's and have to say I am amazed at the results. The separation between low and highs was notable and improved detail and sound staging that after listening to them single wired. I am keeping it bi Wired. I would say it's down to the excellent crossover in the polks
I just biwired my Polk 706c center speaker, and it definitely made difference! More clarity and contrast between high and low.
So many people says it won't make difference but it was like night and day for me.
Thank you for explaining this and making is easy. I had my Klipsch floor standing speakers hooked up wrong for over a year. Now they sound incredible.
Oh wow! I'm glad you found the video then!!
Which option do you do? Bi-wire or bi-amp?
@@TechnoDad YOU need to revisit this video.. Bi amping involves using two amps. What you called bi-amping is actually Bi wiring. The best Bi amping i have seen is a tube power amp feeding the high frequency posts and a solid state amp feeding the low Frequency posts
@@MrAustrokiwi You are wrong. Technically speaking, yes it is still bi-amping with an AV receiver/integrated amplifier because they use separate amplifier channels and 2 separate amplifier channels are running to the speakers. So @Techno Dad is correct here.
BUT - yes bi-amping with separate good quality amplifiers or a pre processor and dedicated amplifier would likely be better because you have more power going to the speakers. Nearly all AV receivers are only rated for 2 channels and are pretty underpowered when you connect 7+ speakers.
@@stonecoldcustoms YOu are absolutely farcically wrong Are you the person who told this channel what Biamping was......Go read the manuals. I challenge you show me one amps manual that says biamping involves one amp and two sets of speaker posts on that amp. Every manual I have read calls it bi-wiring. Every one who know Hifi knows bi amping needs one separate preamp feeding into two separate amps... that's why its called bi amping... it is very different to biwiring that just involves to sets of wires ( manual that says it the way you do. Put up or shut up: In other words provide some proof.
here is a link to another manufacturer that calls it the way I do
www.qacoustics.co.uk/blog/2016/06/08/bi-wiring-speakers-exploration-benefits/
I think the part ppl miss is that using the balance on a bi amp set up allows you to lower the volume of woof or tweet independently, you can do this without changing thier respective frequency. Its great to be able to drop your overall tweet volume if your getting tweet stress..lol..
It's important to know that your speakers with dual binding post have to be able to to be bi-amped.not all speakers are able to to do this.if they're not designed for this.you WILL damage them.some are only able to be bi-wired. Love the videos,lots of information.
You need to have 4 binding posts to the amplifier speaker terminal section to do the bi amp and the amplifier must be capable of doing that not only of a matter of power but also as to allow you to function it.
To understand that perfectly, have a look to official site of Accuphase amp, for example A 47, or other and check the bi- amp/bi- cable section in the manual.What you also will notice is that whichever function you choose, you will have to move a selector that sets the equipment accordingly.
I also want to make clear that i am not doing a commercial for this brand, but is the simpliest example for someone to understand it due to visualization.
Do I have to use these spay connectors to the amplifier if I’m bi wiring them with banana plugs?
@4:30 on that picture of Bi-amp, I was wondering if it would be OK to just keep the metal links (clips) connectors IN, and do Bi-amp that way. That way I thought even more power would go to the low Frequency (bottom) and more than enough would still be available to the top high frequency, right?? The Speakers handles up to 300W. I would add 2 channels from the amp - 210 W each (total of 420 W) to that speaker. Thanks.
Thanks. I’m buying a Klipsch Center speaker today. Now I can sound smart like I knew this all along,
Can you also just use 2 bare speaker wire for both the positive and the negative?..
He gets the prize
Nobody explained how you do it physically wow huh
Thanks man !!!!!
Thank you!
Ok help me out so i bought bi wireing wire so i would just put the black in the black on amp and red in the red on amp, then the other side has 4 connectors 2 bl 2 red soni would just plug them in to my Klipsch 600 red to red amd black to black or is there another way?? I using a Onkyo 6100
How do I adjust the settings in my Yamaha TSR-7850 to bi-amp? The wiring in itself is very clear as there are outputs just for that. Thanks!
My home theater set up 9.1.6 my receiver denon avrx6500 11.2 channal but i used audio source amp210 for atmos 4celling speakers.for the rest of my klipsch speakers to get better sounding what kind of amplifire i have to buy.thank you
I have a Klipsche ProMedia 4.1 system with subwoofer R and L front and R and L Rear. the speakers get there power from the subwoofer. If i have 2 more of the satellites can i hook them to the amp so i have 2 R and 2 L front speakers?
So if I understand, with my 2 channel receiver, I have speaker A and speaker B leads at the back. So I can do it different than you did?
I take L and R of speaker A and wire to top posts tweeters of left and right speaker separately.
I take L and R of speaker B outputs and put them on L and R lower binding posts of speakers separately.
Then select both A and B on receiver.
Mine is not a surround receiver. It's an old 90s pioneer audio receiver. 100w per channel at 8 ohms.
Hi! If it’s a two channel amp, then you are not bi-amping. If you want to bi-amp, you would need two channel or amps per speaker. So you would need four channels to bi-amp two speakers.
@@TechnoDad so if I did what I said above what is that?
Running A outputs to highs and B outputs to lows?
Taking 2 separate speaker outputs.
I can run A or B or A+B (meant for 4 speakers.)
Do you need to have a specific amp for bi-wiring then?
Will someone explain biamping normally for LF speaker input and using receiver to my tube amp to power hf inputs of speakers.
Is it possible to connect normal speakers to a bi-wire Amp. If so please explain how to.
Awesome video, most accurate statement of all time is that audio is subjective!. On the note of bi-amping though I found it is indeed VERY useful for certain speakers that are known as power hungry such as mid/high end polk speakers. Instead of purchasing that extra amp to give you another 100watts a channel to truly appreciate the speakers you can bi-amp your setup usually with your existing amp. More power on on low power speakers doesn't make sense for sure, if anything you'll accidentally blow them when that dumb friend or whatever cranks your system up to max and your heart sinks from the pops n fizzles. Just my 0.02
Great vid!
Perfect! Very simple video, but well-explained and easy to understand. Thank you for taking the time to make this! Much appreciated!
On the same AV receiver using it only in stereo, what about using your pre amp out on your surround back and connect it to your pre amp in on your front speakers. Will that up the wattage to your speakers?
I have decided to connect two (2) sets of speakers to a Yamaha 6140 A/V receiver. The speakers: Bose 4001 + Advent Jade towers. The wire 16 gauge speaker wire. The problem is after the connect was made there was no sound. The receiver powers on and nothing. Settings were checked and still no sound; secondly I was gifted a Kenwood KM-897 amp. I would to connect all together with a 42" Vizio Smart TV. I need your guidance, Obi Wan !
I have Yamaha NS555 with Yamaha receiver speakers A to highs and speakers B to the lows. Wonder if better to split them as speakers A to 1 tower and speakers B to other tower?? Hmmm
What if my 5.1 surround amplifier does not have that Bi-Amp option? Can I just still run a second cable? So that I have more power? Since my amp delivers half te power of the speaker.
So I finally got my first set of Klipsch floorstanding speakers used (R-26Fs) of course with the jumper plate missing and the balance feels really off center heavy. It could be and probably is my receiver (a yamaha HTR-5740) since this wasn't exactly a well thought out purchase, but a quick one after my old receiver died. I don't know much about the receiver it's just what I could get in an hour with no more home theater stores near me, no idea if the A and B for left and right speakers have separate amps, but I gotta get it sorted.
Is your wiring method to run 2 wires from amp out (at 2:30) exactly the same as keeping the gold plated connectors bridging the posts on the speaker end...? I guess what I’m asking is ...What does removing the bridge do to the speaker?
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
You’re welcome Chris!
Thank you so much this video was extremely helpful!! I have a Denon x3500h that was meant a a different pair of speakers. I got rid of the old speakers and upgraded to rp 8000f and a rp 504c. I thought I needed a separate amp to power my speakers but I will just bi amp instead since I will only be doing a 5.1 channel system. Thanks again!
You're very welcome! I'm glad I could help.
Good video. I have a question. I’m making some DML speakers. Each channel has two panels. One for high frequency and one for low frequency. I’m using a BK Pro 10M preamp and a generic theater amp for stereo. I need separate speaker wires going to each panel (total of 4, two per channel).
What’s the best way to hook this up?
Thanks,
Paul
Hey, Thanks for video. Wondering what would be the best receiver for a pair of rtia9's? they can supposedly handle 500 watt each.
Hey man thank you for letting me know the top binding post are for the high end and the bottom for the low. These speaker companies leave little things like that out of documentation, really helped me out.
You’re very welcome!
Would you biamp SVSUltraTowers with an external amp like the Outlaw Model 7000X in a 5.1.2 set up?
Hello, I have two 500 watt polk audio towers and want to get the most out of them. They are hooked to a yamaha rx a3080 receiver. Can you help?
Thanks for the very clear video. It allowed me to understand bi-wiring. Thanks for taking the time to share that knowledge.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you liked the video.
My advent as2's are bi-wire, tried to use the top as highs only and the bottom as just low-freq. But it didn't work. They just passed the bass and the high was only tweeter.
I think that bi-amp and power output is two different things and if you set your system to bi-amp, you will NOT get more power from your amplifier (although it will be used two amplifiers for one speaker channel). Because total power for one channel is for full frequence range (20Hz - 20kHz). What you get is more clear sound because each amp can focus on minor frequency range. I tested this on my Yamaha RX-V1900 and Floorstanding speakers Mission 783.
Passive bi amping doe absolutely nothing. Active Bi amping is a different matter.
@@anthonymartino9917 Nonsense.
Great video! Question: I am thinking of buying a pair of Klipsch Reference R-26FA Dolby Atmos speakers. I have an old receiver with only right & left speaker outlets. These speakers have 2 speaker terminals: one for the main drivers and the other for the Dolby Atmos. Would I be able to run a speaker wire from the main driver terminal to the Dolby Atmos terminal and then to my reviver?
Hi, excuse me for my English. I didn't understand how the signal goes from the main avr to the other Amp. If I would to get in series two speakers, losing an half power, should I add power bi-amping those channels? Thank you a lot.
I don't have the option 9.1 bi amp. It only gives me 9.1 or 7.1 bi amp and when I choose the 7.1 bi amp, I cannot change the bi amp assign. It's set to Height 2 and grayed out... Any idea why? I got the Denon AVR x3700H
It is necessary to connect speaker with two binding post with bi -wire or bi -amp or we can connect like any other speaker ?. Can we remove that jumper without doing bi-amp or bi-wire??? PLZ ANSWER......
Yes good video as of now I am passive bi amping with my two Parasounds 2125 models .So my DENON in the PREOUT section L and R goes to the first Parasound which does my woofers and it loops to the second PARASOUND for my tweeters only . Should I have the first PARASOUND do the high frequency first and the second one do woofers? Or leave as is Parasound 1 does woofers bottom terminal of my speaker cabinet. and the second one does tweeters? Upper terminals.
Hi Andrew! I don't think it matters what order you power the system with. Have you tried using an RCA splitter (amzn.to/2F23KLX) so you don't have to loop it to the second amp? Just take that one signal and go directly to each amp.
Finally someone showing HOW TO BI WIRE!!
Ayyyy!! I’m glad you liked the video, Hugh!
Yep- same as Cecilia - been trying to find very simple explaination and pros/cons -- this is the first vid I saw that made clear sense
Originally bi amping atleast in car audio was meant for sending separate amplified signals to a three way set of speakers so that your main drivers could receive lpf signals from the sub channel and full range signal to the mids and highs to be filtered through their respective crossovers so yes in theory it can add “wattage” by using a separate channel on your avr to run the separate drivers, tweeters etc but I believe the point is to be able to send separate amplified signals further defining the sound of the system. Although I’m not as of an expert in home audio as much as I am car audio so i could be wrong.
I need help my in fixing my Martin Logan 40 is not working at all. Let me know it is connected to Denon x4100W
I have a question. I have klipsch kf28 which needs150w all the rest of my speakers require 90 and 80w. My reciever is a vsxlx302 which is 100w per chanel. Should i biamp to get the extra 50w thats needed and have an extra 50 w for the kf28s?
Hi, I have a ? I have marantz sr7013 avr I also have an old 2 channel amp so if I wanted to biamp my 2 front paradigm studio 60 tower speakers do I just run a single rca cable to my left & right pre out on my avr to the left & right channel of my amp & then just run my speaker wire from the amp to the 2 front upper posts of my speakers? Because when I do that I don't really hear a difference. Thanks!!
I'm considering using this process for my Klipsch 620, just want to make sure I understand correctly, using my Yamaha M-60 which has 3 two channel speaker outputs, I can bi-amp from speaker A & B to the dual binding posts for the lower & higher frequencies? Thanks in advance!
hi there
I want to know if I can add a bookshelf atmos to 5.2 setup to create 7.2.2 without purchasing additional amp? I have a nr686 receiver.
Can i use speaker switch selector to pass thru the Bi-amp?. I'm using YAMAHA RX V581 7.2 Channel to Klipsch speakers.
Question: If I choose not to bi-amp or bi-wire, and leave the metal connection plates attached, does it matter which posts I connect my receiver too? Should I connect the Hi or Low to the receiver? I appreciate any advice you can share!
I'm telling you... the best straight forward explanation!! THANKS. (just one question : if I Bi-Amp, and the power go over and above the wattage the speaker is designed for (ex. speaker handles 300w, but by Bi-Amping , there will be a total of 350 W pushing the speaker! Is there a problem? Will it wreck the speaker?. ).
... and my logic view here: Bi_wire = should NOT have any changes at all. Why?? = on the amp output plugs, the wires are connected to each other (either via metal-to-metal, banana / hole / etc etc), so the electricity going through one wire should be the same to the other wire. So, whatever electricity arriving at the speaker will be exactly the same, no matter if it comes by one wire (with bridge between poles), or 2 wires (with no bridge between poles).
Thank you Marcio!! It’s better to overpower your speakers as opposed to under powering them. So if you’re over by 50 - 150 watts rms you should be fine. Having that extra headroom for dynamic shifts in your content is clutch. So in bi-wire the amp should see two speaker which means you are connecting in parallel. This would cause the amp to see half the ohm load. So we would take 8 ohm speakers down to 4 ohms and the amp puts out around double the power. That’s the idea. Not really sure if it works that well. I didn’t notice much difference when I bi-wired the speakers.
I have a 5.1 channel Yamaha RXV385B receiver and a pair of bi-amp able nf160 tower speakers. I noticed that you can select either 2, 3, 4, or 5 speakers in the receiver’s settings. When I selected 4 speaker mode and placed the receiver in "5 channel stereo" mode it sent the same signal to all four speakers so I was wondering if there would be any noticeable benefit of using the fronts and surround channels to bi-amp these speakers? I feel its a bit better sound quality. Please let me know your opinion
Hi Techno Dadl, I have an Denon AVC X6500H i completed all speakers connected calibrated, excepted (Height 2), I connected my Blu-ray player HDMI Audio/Video to my receiver HDMI blu-ray, HDMI CD to receiver CD, coaxial to receiver DVD coaxial, when play CD with coaxial or HDMI CD no problem, when play Blu-ray Disc have video and no sound. Would you please give me some solution about my problem, Thank You.
I just want to hook up my RP-8000 2 gen to a stereo. I have six post on the back of my speaker. I am getting no sound at all. I have been out of this for awhile so not really familiar with bi wire.
You bring up an interesting point, but then gloss over it. Bi-amping and/or bi-wiring hi end speakers are for 🎶 music listening and not so much for home theater set ups. I was actually surprised the Denon had a bi-amp setting on it...a loudness button probably accomplishes the same thing.
Also, couldn't you do a Speaker A to top and Speaker B to bottom post configuration?
Anyway, cool video!
Straightforward and informative. Thanks. About to receive the identical Klispch towers and am going to give biamping a try.
Glad it was helpful! Enjoy!
I have a yamaha rx-a3020 (yeah it's old and out of date) and don't have the on screen options of your denon to tell what speakers to connect if I were to want to try to biamp my rear speakers what outputs should I connect to? right now they are in the surround position should I connect to surround back? I have spare wires so I'm curious to see if this helps my rear presence. Lastly will this be bad to do since my front and centre speakers don't have the bi connectivity?
Thanks for the explanation! I'm upgrading to Polk S55 towers from Infinity References. I have a Pioneer Elite 9.2 receiver but after moving into a smaller home, I only run a 5.1 system.
Can you do it to set up Dolby Atmos speakers? Or that's impossible
I have a High end Yamaha RX A3080 Definitive D9 Hooked up would I hear any difference bi-amp
So how do you bi-amp with multiple external amp with only one set of LCR PreOuts
Channa what settings do i change on my marants sr 7030 yes bywire comes up what else do i change in settings please
Hi Richard, you'll have to go into the amp assign screen and scroll the top option for assign mode to set it up for bi-amp.
Hey got a quick question can I add another center channel speaker on top of my center channel speaker by just going from one center spkr to the other? Will it effect the performance of those 2 speakers as apposed to just using 1.
So I could use some help. I have a Marantz 7011. I have a 5.2.4 setup. My plan was to use the Bi-amp feature to power my fronts, and the same receiver for my center and surround R/L speakers and use a separate amp to power my four Atmos channels. I was not able to find the configuration that would allow me to do this. In the video you have a 9.1 Bi-amp option; my Marantz, doesn't as far as I can tell. So is my only option to Bi-amp the front speakers with a separate?
I want to bi-ware my center speaker but I have these clip type connectors on my amp for the center speaker, instead of a banana plug connector. You know the one where you simply plug in the bare wire. Can i bi-wire with this?
If you have speakers that are biwireable but you only have one set of speaker wires and have the bridge plate in place. My question is if it is better to connect the one set of speaker wires to the low-frequency or high-frequency posts? I have always connected to the low-frequency post given that bass response requires more power than treble, so, my thinking is any reduction in signal strength going over the bridge plate should have less of an effect on the treble than on the bass response. I am curious to know if you all agree or have a different perspective that i may not be considering.
when bi-amping speakers does it matter or does it tell you what pair of wires go to HF side and LF side?
This is a great explanation and explained properly but unfortunately I have 4 wharfedale diamond 220 and 230 speakers so my amp only allows 4 speakers into one input each so I wouldn’t be able to bi amp without it sounding the same cause so many wires in one input but I’ve done it before and did hear a difference
Polk Audio RTi A7.....wondering if I take the shorting bar out, can I connect the Front of a Pioneer SX 315, 5.1Receiver, to the High side of the Speaker and the Rear/Surround to the Low side of the RT Ai7?
There is NO mention in the Manual regarding what to use, 5.1, 7.1 or 9.1etc.
This wouldn't work because the (rear/surround) is dedicated for rear surround effects. So if you used this channel without being able to (assign) it as front right and left, you would be getting the rear/surround effects coming out of your front speakers.
Is there a trick\method to wiring multiple speakers to one channel. Like three Center channel speakers?
My question is because of the ohms.
Hi, great vid! I have a Kenwood 104AR Receiver and a couple of Infinity Kappa 5.1 series II speakers with 4 post. The Kenwood has two channels with two speaker terminals per channel. Can I Bi-Amp these speakers with this receiver by just hooking each speaker up to both channels? Thanks in advance, Mark
Same question.
Hi TechnoDad, I have a Wharfedale Diamond 9.5 Floor Speakers. It has for terminals, which is the recommended connection, High Frequency or Low Frequency Terminals for Standard Connections. I don't want to Bi-Wire. Thanks!
Hello sir, I have a question - Can I connect 2 Polk rc80i or Rc60i ceiling speakers in one single channel of Denon x2600h ?? Denon X2600h is a 5.2.2setup can I extend it upto 5.2.4 by adding 2 more atmos Speakers .. total 4 speaker in 2 channel .... Is this possible??
Excellent presentation and clear explanation! Well done sir. I call the metal bars that connect the speaker terminals "Jumpers". I also do not personally choose to bi-amp or bi-wire. I tried to bi-amp using the height channels on my receiver several years ago and did not hear a difference in my setup. I'm wondering if you bi-wire, if you change the resistance on the amp from say an 8ohm load to a 4ohm load which would cause the amp to send more power to each terminal. For example, my Acurus A200 is 200 x 2 @ 8ohm and 300 x 2 @4ohm so I'm thinking if someone wanted to bi-wire, they would be providing more power to their speakers. Let me know if I'm correct in my thinking on this.
Thank you sir!! I think you're right. If you connect two speakers in parallel like bi-wire suggests, the amp should see half the ohm load. I remember this from my car audio days. Here's my question though, the full Klipsch tower is 8 ohms, but is each section also 8 ohms? I'm not sure about that so I didn't want to put that in the video. Would you be able to find out through your Klipsch contacts?
Me too! Oh the good ole' high school days of car audio. I had a pair of 12's connected to a 2ch Rockford Fosgate Punch 45 amp and I remember the amp saw the speakers as a 4ohm load because the speakers were an 8ohm load. Hmmm....that is a good question. I'm not sure what the rating on each component is individually. Let me reach out to Klipsch and see if I can find out.
I have reached out to Roy Delgado (Engineer at Klipsch). I know he didn't design the RF-7 III but he may know or at least know who to get me in contact with. Will let you know what I find out.
I don't think it should make a difference....
The crossover is "split" into 2 pieces and the jumpers parallel the two, yielding an 8ohm speaker. If you remove the jumpers and feed the speaker with 2 wires from one amplifier channel you haven't really changed anything - the paralleling is not at the amplifier instead of the speaker.
Another view.... the tweeter is 8ohms above 2kHz, and high imp below. The opposite for the bass 8ohm below 1kHz, high imp above. Parallel these and you get (tweeter) 8ohm//high imp and (bass) high imp//8ohm - effectively 8ohm at all frequencies.
The amp is still handling the full frequency range, so working just as hard. The advantage is that you've effectively increased the cable size - which may have an audible effect.....
Bi-amping, as described, has 2 amplifiers handling the full range with each drive unit discarding the rubbish it can't handle. If you have spare channels, try it! But don't buy an extra amp if you don't!!
Hi there! Incorrect. The high and low frequency speakers are connected in parallel either at the speaker connector (in single cable mode) or at the the amp connector (in bi-wire mode). So, as long as you are using decent cables, there should be no significant difference in this case. However, when bi-amping, what you are really doing is connecting to one amp a part of the electronic load (the high frequency speaker) and to the other amp the rest of it (the low frequency speaker). So here, yes, there should be an impedance increase to consider. Cheers!
great video, I have a Denon 6500 receiver, I have 2 702S2 B&w speakers, what is the best way to bi-amp for stereo only to that receiver? thanks!!
Hi! What kind of Atmos setup are you running? 7.2.4? If you have two channels you are not using, you can bi-amp your mains with whatever pair you are not using (surround back, height 2).
This may be an obvious question but it’s stumped me and no one has mentioned it in their videos. Let’s say a receiver has an A channel and a B channel. There are 2+ and 2- on each channel, so 4+ and 4- all together. When bi-wiring, do you run them on the same or separate channel? My channels are 4~16ohms separately and 8~16ohms when used together.
You made it so simple. Very nicely done!
Thank you! Cheers!
Quick question. Which channel on the amp goes to which plug on speaker. Does the main one go to the low and the bi amp go to the upper plug on speaker or does it matter?
Hi! I don't think that will matter. If the AVR is setup to bi-amp, it should be the same amount of power outputting to both.
Does make any difference, if I connect lets say FRONT channels to Low Frequency input and SURROUND to High Frequencies, when Bi-Amping? Can't find it explained, and I dont want to brake my twitters with too much power.
I have the same question....Polk Audio RTi A7.....wondering if I take the shorting bar out, can I connect the Front of a Pioneer 5.1 to the High side of the Speaker and the Rear/Surround to the Low side of the RT Ai7?
There is NO mention in the Manual regarding what to use, 5.1 etc.
You need to be able to re-assign the channel on the receiver. Otherwise, it won't work correctly. Check your receiver's manual for info.
I have a Harmon Kardon receiver that is 5.1 surround sound capable. At this time I am not using the surround sound speakers. I am only using the FL FR and C. Can I use the surround sound output terminals from the receiver to bi amp my bi amp Energy speakers?
Hi Ted! Only if the Harmon Kardon can set that up in the menu. Otherwise, you'll be getting surround information instead of mains information.
But if your listening to just music 5 ch stereo then it’s ok. I did it with same amp
@@johnlecoure164 you mean the 5 ch stereo setting in the amp?
you do great job of explaining technical stuff. thx
What did I need to wire my Polk speaker signature s55 to the Sony receiver 5.2 4K ultra?
I have an amp that comes on when it's hooked up correctly on my Sony str-dh820 but my receiver had the malfunction code and had to take all wires off and now starting from scratch and can't figure it out. All it would do is just add more Watts per channel and sounded so much better
Man, I was connecting the HF cable to the 2nd set of terminals and wondering why I was getting no HF. Didn’t consider both cable going into the same terminal. Thank you for this!
Out of interest, what is the 2nd set of terminals for then? A surround sound set up?
Hi! What speakers are you connecting and are you using an AVR? Are you bi-amping or bi-wiring?
How can I use two seperate amplifier for bi-amp-ing speakers?
Not sure what you mean?
I did the bi-amping, and the sound - even after recalibrating the speakers - was muddy: powerful, but imprecize bass, very harsh highs, mid was not creating any room. One cable is a shorter 2,5mm2 cross surface I used for the highs, the other one is a longer 4mm2 cross surface that I used for the lows.
Is it the amp that is crappy, or the cables really have to have the same properties to do bi-amping?
Of course, I removed the interconnecting wires between the speaker poles to keep the right impedance.
Out of curiousity, I swapped the pairs in between high and low posts, and it didn't really do much difference, I expected hissing or lost sound due to filters of the speaker.
Any tip? I have a Pioneer SC-LX88, I used the Top middle for highs, Front for lows as per the manual.
Honestly, I've never really wanted to bi-amp and don't hear a difference when I tried it out. So I don't mess with it at all...
Great video sir! I have a specific question and the manual for my new speakers is vague and general for multiple speakers. I bought a pair or Kilpsch R-625FA speakers. These have the Dolby Atmos speakers built in on the top. They have 2 sets of posts in the back. On each speaker, I connected one set of posts with wires to the "Front A" of my Sony receiver. But where should I plug in the other set to? for the top atmos built in speakers? The options on my receiver are either "surround" and "surround back/height" I'm a beginner so any help would be great. I learned about banna speakers and how to wire through your other videos but I'm kind of stuck on this and can't find answers. I hope this isn't a dumb question thank you for your time!
Great video man. You explained everything very well. Liked and subscribed!
Welcome, Gustavo! Thank you!
Can all speakers in Yamaha 583 be, bi - amped. As there's not much power in the receiver, I need to know whether bi amping could make a difference. Thanks
Great video, i wish it was longer.
So what if u have speaker dual posts and dont bi wire? Whats the difference in sound? I tried biwiring and realised now after watching this video i was doing it wrong.
Im buying a new receiver soon and im using a Klipsch RP-280f surround system(ill probably add two atmos speakers aswell) . Would you recommend to get a receiver with bi-amp capability ?
Hello mate , I really like your true answers Regarding bi wire or bi amp , I have Yamaha rx v 1700 , please let me know how could I do bi amp on that and right now I m playing 4 tower speakers on two channel ( using 2 front channel) and j want to hook all of them with my amp , please let me know how I can hook 4 towers on my amp , I know so many questions but please let me know
Thanx
What if I don't remove the clip between the binding posts and connect two separate amps, one to each set? I don't want to try and damage anything. Will it work for both amps (one at a time I mean)?
That probably wouldn't' be good.