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Thanks to all for your comments.
I asked the question because I am going to re-decorate the living room next weekend. I will tidy the trunking for the cables of the AV system, and I will lay new speaker cables for some second hand floor standers I just bought off eBay. The floor standers are for music only, and will run alongside the AV speakers. For now they are powered by zone 2 of my AV amp, but I’m planning to buy a dedicated stereo amp for them later. Basically I wanted to know whether to lay two pairs of speaker wires now, with the idea of bi-amping the speakers in the future.
Reading all your comments, I have decided not to bother with bi-amping.
There are some multi channel power amps on the second hand market that can be had for less money than their stereo siblings (eg rotel 1506), and I was thinking that they could be used to bi-amp the fronts.
In the end it sound as if my budget is better spent buying a single stereo amp that has enough power to do the job, and keep it simple.
But I learned about horizontal and vertical bi-amping in the process, which was fun.
Many thanks.
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