I heard this.

" Use a 2 ch amplifier always yield better SQ than a 4 ch bridged, even bridging give more power ".

Pls comment. Any constructive input is appreciated.

Load of bollocks. It depends on a lot of things

lets call a spade a spade shall we ...I love it

depends on the amp, its damping factor and the levels being played at. By bridging you loose damping, but is it really audiable?? (In any decent amp I thinks not)

SO - in MY opinion, no audiable difference concidering good (I mean mid range and above) amps.

For you to audibly hear a difference in an amp based purely on bridging it, other than the difference from the extra power, the amp would literally have to have been assembled by a blind, fingerless orang-utan who picks up random electronic components from a bucket in the dark and spits them onto the circuit board.


Sorry, its getting on to 12am and i've had too many late nights, you'll have to excuse me :hehe:

Your excused

I have a coustic 4x60wrms bridged to 2x240wrms for my fronts and it sounds absolutely awesome.

Maz, that is what i am thinking of doing too.

I m going to install a set of Macrom EXT 6.0 spilts, also considering to put in a set of Morel which both are sitting on my desk.

Amp wise, I have a Mcintosh with 4*50 output and i m thinking of bridging it to run the front spilts ( 2 * 200w ). Nevertheless I m thinking too putting a Mcintosh 4 * 100 in to run it (not bridged as I dont think i need 400w to run a set of spilt ). Or to make it even more confusing I can run it with another Mcintosh 2 * 100w.

I think i will use the 4 * 100w bridged to 2 * 400w to run the subs, but what about the front ? i m open to any idea and hope you can :idea: me up !!!!!

Any more views to share??

What McIntosh amps have you got?

MC420 (4*50)
MC431 (4*100)
last one i forgot, something like MC427 ...

any comment on them Gooki ?

LOL Gooki's eyes light up!

Gooki : <zzzzzzzzzz>
Someone Else : blah blah blah McIntosh blah bl...
Gooki : <zzzSNORT!!> Wha? WTF? Where? Did someone say MCINTOSH!?! :tony:

Bloody good amps. If you had a MC430 I'd be offering you a few $$.

If it was me I would be using the MC431 amp to run the splits active. Then bridge the MC420 to run the subs.

PS you don't happen to have the manuals for them do you?

Blackrazor, if you dont like Mcintosh, I still have a couple of other brand to suit your cup to tea ... hehehe

:hehe:

Any one has any comment on PPI Arts series and ETON amplifiers ( those old ones silver color with the yellow words ETON on it )

Gooki - Your suggestion sounds very good to me, i will do it that way. I m trying to find it too, you need it ? btw, what is so special about that 430?

Yeah i'm in need of a manual for the MC430.

Lol you shouldn't have told Blackrazor that. He missed out on buying my zapco amp, then missed out on a pair of PPI Art serries amps.

What genesis have you got?

Just the very old school

Genesis 60 and a Genesis 100, silver chrome finish with the oval badge on it.

remember that www.genesis-ice.com ? The entire web site was blue color when i got those amps .... hehhee

Oh ... i have just reminded of someone's sorrow ....

I just want to confirm with the jargon

Run active = use a active xover to cut the frequency b4 amplification right?

What is the benefit of running active? Can anyone teach me?

So putting 100w to tweeter and mid bass seperately with dedlicated range of frequency is better than giving 200w to the passive xover then mids and highs?