[Horizons]

I have previously posted regarding how happy I am with the JVC F10 driving my Maggie 1.6QRs. I now use a passive low level xover and power the bass panels from the main outputs and the tweeters from the surround outputs. Works very well. No more high level passive crossovers to smear and mess up the sound.

But....

I can't help thinking that using TWO F10s (one for the bass panels, one for the tweeter panels) just might give me a little bit more punch and gain while retaining all of the qualities of this giant killer JVC unit.

Is anyone out there using two units or has anyone experimented with this?

[Ears]

I have previously posted regarding how happy I am with the JVC F10 driving my Maggie 1.6QRs. I now use a passive low level xover and power the bass panels from the main outputs and the tweeters from the surround outputs. Works very well. No more high level passive crossovers to smear and mess up the sound.

But....

I can't help thinking that using TWO F10s (one for the bass panels, one for the tweeter panels) just might give me a little bit more punch and gain while retaining all of the qualities of th ...

I have been using two modified Panny 45's passively for a while now and there seems to be no downsides at all....at least not when all channels have regular binding posts in place of the spring clips.

The improvement will most likely be obvious...but you will have to take a bit more care in aiming your remote when changing the volume and units have to be fairly close together.

[timbley]

I'm using two F10s with an active crossover on my Klipsch RF-7s. The previous post pointed out that you need to put a little attention to where the remote is aimed when you change the volume. If you get them out of synch, you can make a cool game out of figuring out how to aim the remote so that it affects only the unit you wish it to.

I think the best configuration is to give each speaker it's own receiver, rather than having one receiver on the tweets and one on the woofers. It's better because it distributes the power more evenly between the the two power supplies, and if you do get out of synch, the left / right balance shifts instead of tone. Hearing the tweeter get too loud is really annoying.

[Horizons]

I think the best configuration is to give each speaker it's own receiver, rather than having one receiver on the tweets and one on the woofers.

Thanks, that makes sense. Kind of a dual mono approach. Just wondering if this will give me additional gain and/or headroom.

I guess it will only cost me $229 to find out.

[timbley]

Yes, it is dual mono, come to think of it.
I'll be curious to know if it works for you. I never tried that configuration when I was attempting to use passive bi-amping with two Panasonic SA-XR50s. It wasn't possible because I was using the digital inputs, so I couldn't get the surround channels to duplicate the mains. The party mode thing is all messed up for that use.