Bi-wiring question using the Denon 2802, can I do this?

[Terminator Nut]

Hi, I have a Denon 2802 receiver, and Definitive BP2002TL front speakers, and I was thinking of bi-wiring them but I am not sure whether or not I can do that with the 2802. It has A and B switching, and currently the theater is connected through the A side. The b side isn't used for any thing. And I was thinking that I could connect cables from the mids on the speaker terminals to the connectors on the b speaker section of the receiver. I asked a guy at Soundtrack about this, and he said that he wasn't sure whether I could do this and that he didn't know if there was one amp to drive both a and b or if there were two separate ones to drive one side, and one separate on the other side. He said if there was only one that I would need another power amp in order to be able to do bi-wiring. I was wondering what you guys think?

Thanks

Scott

[Jellodyne]

Bi-wiring connects both sets of wire to the same terminal on the amp. Of course what you're talking about is bi-amping. You need another power amp to do bi-amping. I don't belive that you want to use your A/B connectors to do it though. I'm not 100% sure what yor receiver does to get the B side (different receivers do different things) but it definately doesn't have an extra pair of amps in there. At best it would be the equivalent of bi-wiring. What is the advantage of bi-wiring? Apart from doubling the effective size of your cables, it can have a strong psycho-acoustic placebo effect. Now if you had some unused surround channels those would be discrete amp channels...

[chlngr1970]

In short, no. This will not work. The only thing it will do, is possibly overload the amp. Bi wiring involves an am that has two sets of outputs per speaker. One for High level, and one for Low level. I believe there is an internal corssover that allows for this. I believe that if you run separate amps for high and low, and run them through a corssover, you should be set.

Also, older Denon receivers do the bi-wiring thing, but I've never tried it.

j