I gather from your post that your Paradigm speakers are two way speakers. Even if they are three way, the ICBM would not be appropriate for an active crossover for your Paradigms because the crossover frequency (between the subwoofer and the front Left and Right, or even the surrounds, or whatever) choices on the ICBM are 40, 60, 80, 100, or 120 Hz.

A verion of the ICBM intended for use with Magnepan speakers has somewhat higher frequency choices but still nowhere near high enough for your intended application.

For a two way speaker system active crossover, you would want crossover frequency choices suitable for a woofer-tweeter crossover, which would probably be in the low kilohertz region (probably around 1,500 to 3,000 Hz.) Even if you were looking for an active crossover between a woofer and a midrange in a three way speaker system, the ICBM would not be appropriate because the woofer-midrange crossover would probably be in the range of a few hundred Hz. to a kilohertz or so.

Additionally, for biamping a two or three way speaker system, you want a selection of crossover slopes. Having the ability to set the high-pass crossover frequency seperately from the low-pass crossover frequency, as well as the crossover slopes and other characteristics (such filter as "Q") may be needed to make an active crossover a suitable replacement to the passive one built into your speakers. The passive crossover built into into your Paradigms may doing more than just blocking inappropriate frequencies from getting to the various drivers.

If one were to make an active biamp crossover for use solely with you model of Paradigms, it could have no user adjustable controls for crossover frequency, slope and other characteristics, like your present passive crossover has. A "universal" active crossover would have to have a wide variety of user adjustable settings to match the crossover to the intended application (speaker system). This would result in a more elaborate and costly active crossover.

So, the short and direct answer to you question, mdickson, is NO. The ICBM is not an appropriate "electronic crossover" to use in actively biamping your Paradigms.

The ICBM is an excellent choice for an active crossover to use with a subwoofer, though.

Paul

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