How to bi-amp onkyo 706

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Originally Posted by Mordir

One thing to note about bi-amping with your receiver is doing so will reduce the power per channel for all channels. The Onkyo 706 will also get much hotter doing so. The drop off is significant. You will get less power to the front speakers even though 2 channels are dedicated to them and the surrounds will surely get less power.

The bench tests on the 706 show 5 channels gives about 75 watts per channel. When you bump it up to 7 channels (which bi-amping effectively does) the power per channel drops to around 28 watts.

Overall you will decrease the performance of your set up if you bi-amp with the receiver.

As far as your center channel is concerned I suggest the CS1 to match your 60s.

I seen that before as well... I'm convinced it is a typo since the x05 series didn't drop off that much. I mean, that dropoff is HUGE...