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@Ceptorman thanks! i think this will be a fun step into higher end home audio equipment. im trying to sort out a lot of the complex information out there about these systems. i think my next step is to try and really understand the specs of this denon amp. i bought the amp and speakers as a package but i am realizing that if i wanted to really optimize this set up, a new amp that suits these speakers better would be the way to go. i have listened to this set up a few times before and really liked it. until them in gonna not overthink it and enjoy.

thanks for the reply. what i was trying to gain through bi-amping was trying to balance, or spread out the power across multiple amped outputs so that the main speaker output (which is at 70 watts) wasn't being overloaded. the speakers are at 150 watts but very efficient so there may not be to much of a power draw from a channel that isn't putting out that many watts. however what im realizing is that bi-amping requires a little more customization that my system currently has and so i may not see any true benefits.

thanks for the resource. when denon said that this receiver/amp had 5 discrete outputs i assumed that i mean that each output had its own amp which output at the specs for that channel. based on your answer it seems that this is not the case. thanks for the advice on the cables. essentially what i am trying to understand is how to optimize my current set up. considering that the amp is not the optimized equipment for these speakers i really won't benefit from bi amping, and oxygen free cable will be fine and i really won't see noticeable upgrades from higher end specialized wiring.

My amp does have 4 separate channels as output, wouldn't this allow me to bi-amp? just trying to understand your answer. just out of curiosity, i have read that the plates are not as clean of a signal as insulated cable. do you have a preference between cables or plates when using the speakers passive crossover?

Hi, brand new to this forum and to higher end home audio equipment. I just purchased a used amp and speaker pairing used, Klipsch RF-82 II paired with a Denon AVR-S540BT. I was wondering if anyone here had experience with this set up, as well as bi-amping these speakers with the denon. This amp does have 5 discrete outputs so it could be done, however im not sure if the specs of these outputs would match the speakers or if these speakers would even benefit from bi-amping. the specs of the denon outputs going to the speakers are below main(going to woofers) - 70W (8 ohm, 20 Hz - 20 kHz, 0.08%, 2ch Drive) surround(going to tweeter) - 90W (6 ohm, 1 kHz, 0.7%, 2ch Drive) the specs for the rf-82 II speakers are 8 ohms, 150W RMS / 600W Peak, 98dB @ 2.83V / 1m frequency response is: 33Hz-24KHz ± 3dB / and the passive crossover is at 1400Hz what im kind of concerned about bi amping these speakers is that the crossover between the amp and speakers will drop more frequencies between a bad amp and speaker pairing than just using the speakers passive crossover. these speakers seem efficient enough to the point that a low watt amp at 70 would be fine powering both tweeter and woofer pairs on the speaker. i hope this makes sense. im trying to absorb as much info as i can about audio at this level. thanks