BB4TB, I agree completely with your explanation above. Another benefit of active bi-amping would be a reduction of IM distortion as separate amplification is being used for low and high freqs. A long time ago I scratch built an active crossover (when cd's first came out) and I was very impressed with how much cleaner everything sounded.
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