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Old 03-14-2019, 12:11 PM
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I've talked with several Aida owners and of course heard them in Mecca (Ivan's house [emoji16]). The essential and common element seems to be tri-amping in general. Sure, 1000, 1050, 1500 with 3x the same amp are all good numbers but you could also tier them from bass on up from what Ive been told by 2 other owners. Matching amps' sound sigs is key...
I agree. The sound signatures are key, and I love the D'Agostino Momentum sound.

One more Momentum might be do-able now, but 2X more will have to wait until I get rid of some of the surplus speakers around here!

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Old 03-14-2019, 12:21 PM
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Good to hear your excitement!

Why would your watts double from 500 per side, making 1000 and not just be 500? Separate amp, separate power.

Mind you 500 is plenty IMO
Thank you. Did I sound excited? Me?

An S250 is 250 watts per channel into 8 ohms. 500 watts per channel into 4 ohms, which is what the Aidas are.

So a second S250 is another potential 500 watts per channel.

Hey, I'm just using "Ivan Math" -- 350+350+350=1050, aka Bliss!

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Old 03-14-2019, 12:49 PM
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Wow, absolutely stunning!
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Wow, absolutely stunning!
Thank you. I'm finding myself wandering through the living room just for an excuse to look at the Aidas.

If I sit down "just to listen for a few minutes", it's all over -- hours go by before I can tear myself away.

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350+350+350=1050...
I'm sorry but it doesn't quite work that way and your effective maximum power will be little more than using a single 350 w amplifier - that is assuming you come close to using all 350 watts. A great deal of normal listening occurs at 10 watts of less (depending on speaker sensitivity, distance to listening position, desired loudness etc).

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Old 03-14-2019, 02:43 PM
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I'm sorry but it doesn't quite work that way and your effective maximum power will be little more than using a single 350 w amplifier - that is assuming you come close to using all 350 watts. A great deal of normal listening occurs at 10 watts of less (depending on speaker sensitivity, distance to listening position, desired loudness etc).
Eric... it does not work that way at all. Even bi/amping and tri-amping in the passive domain makes a Huge difference.

I have personal experience doing this for twenty plus years now. Not only is there a difference, but it is profound.

This has been confirmed not only by my ears, experts in the industry, and instruments as well.
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Old 06-24-2019, 09:24 PM
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best speaker I have ever witnessed! most beautiful color!
Enjoy to the fullest!
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Old 06-24-2019, 10:03 PM
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Bi-amping does not effectively double the power. Problem being is that somewhere around 65-80% of power is actually soaked up by the woofers. You can say you have double the power and technically that is correct but the potential will never be realized or manifested as doubling of power since neither the mids nor the tweeters will ever dissipate the same power as the woofers.

However, bi-amping does provide more headroom for a cleaner reproduction of transients since the rail voltage does not sag as much from say thunderous bass passages.

If one amp is driving all the drivers and the rail voltage sags a bit from transients, well, it does take some "fraction" of a second to recover but the music doesn't wait. The soundstage starts to collapse and the sound can and does get a bit congested. That's way before you get to clipping.


With two amps and one of them working hard, it leaves the other amplifier to drive the mids/tweets with clean power reserves. Not to mention there is much less chance of blowing your drivers if only one amplifier is driving and clipping from too much enthusiasm and does not offer protection from DC clipping.

Technically the Horizontal bi-amping makes sense due to the reasons I mentioned above. The woofers are making the amp work hard and sag a bit but the other amplifier does not see that load.

With vertical biamping the whole amplifier still can sag from the woofers in that channel and has to recover which would affect the whole speaker unless the amplifier is truly dual mono with separate power supplies. That's not common for a stereo amp.

By far the most profound and efficient way to do bi or tri amping is with an active system. Problem being you would have to totally bypass the crossovers so the the best case scenario is a "system". I'm not very familiar with Bryston active systems but do they not offer something along those lines?
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Serge... how many speakers have you bi-amped? How many have you tri-amped?
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I have bi-amped 5 pairs speakers over many years with great results. It does not however double the power. That is a common misconception.
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