Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

The sound suddenly went flat and lifeless, almost as if it had been
compressed.
The only thing that was 'compressed' here was your IQ......

Some basic maths for you. Compression at 1:1 means that my IQ would
still be in the mid 130's, same as it's always been.

Yours on the other hand is clearly sub-optimal, as you seem to have
missed a basic point in my post:

PS Please do not bother posting with "it's all in your mind"...

To which you replied:

BTW, as usual, it's all in your mind [snip]

Mind you, following that logic, perhaps this will work...

Stewart, please do not go and jump off a cliff.

Assuming that your amps are capable of driving the speakers without
clipping at your preferred listening level, why should bi-amping be
better than bi-wiring? Electrically, they are *identical*.

LOL!

Now your true lack of knowledge comes into play.

Bi-amping means you have a separate amplifier driving the top (HF) and
bottom (LF) half of each speaker. So for a stereo pair, you have *four*
amplifiers. Count them. Left HF/LF, right HF/LF. Four.

So how is that "electrically identical" to a bi-wired setup, where you
have *two* amplifiers driving the stereo pair? The HF/LF is split at the
amplifier, either by using two sets of speaker outputs, or by using a 2
to 4 configuration speaker cable. This may consist of either soldering
two cores into a banana plug, or attaching two cores into the binding post.

This is clearly not "electrically identical" to a bi-amped setup. With
bi-amping, the HF and LF are split at *line level* (technically between
the pre and power amp), with bi-wiring they are split at *speaker level*.

Now if you'd said that single and bi-wired setups were electrically
identical, you may have a point, at least from a certain point of view.
The fact is though that bi-wiring does make a difference over
single-wiring, but (at least on the equipment I have) bi-amping doesn't.

If, as you suggest, it was "all in the mind", surely I would have
"heard" a difference between bi-wired and bi-amped? Yet I didn't, and
neither did the friend who was in the room with me at the time. Both of
us heard a difference between single and bi-wiring though.

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