Belles Ocm 200


At present I have a Belles Ocm 200 power amp looking to find another one . In doing so can I use them as mono blocks? 

Since these units have a XLR jack in the rear. When using this jack does this make the amp have single output with a higher output?

Also what channel whould be active left or right?

Thanks Wayne

wayne3720
David Belles still answers emails for power modules usa, although, My experience with him has been terrible... I sent an email asking easy, general questions for amps that he designed.  I made sure that I was cordial and brief..... To my surprise,  he answered me fairly quickly,  it was a simple answer... 
"I do not have any current affiliation with these products"   I made an appeal and he never responded again..... 
Hopefully,  You may get a better response than I did. 
Good Luck,  Tim
 OCM was not under Dave's control
 It was a Magnum product almost 30 years a go try calling them.
 He has backed every amp under the Power Modules brand and Belles for
 me like clockwork
 Best,
  JohnnyR
Dave personally answered questions of mine and provided excellent service for my amp. I think he is a one man operation, which is very impressive to me considering all it takes to run a business. To me his the two amps I have had are very high value amps.
I used to own 2 OCM 200's in monoblock configuration with XLR interconnects. They sounded great and doubled their power output this way. Speaker outputs only on positive terminal on each amp(I think, it's been > 15 years). Good luck

I have 2 OCM 500s of different generations or configurations as some may know David made these in several versions and in at least 2 generations. The newer one has a 17" black faceplate (I also once saw one in smokey silver), with BI-WIRE WBT binding posts (4 sets) and MOS-FETS. My 2nd one (I bought new) has a 19" faceplate with one stereo pair of WBT binding posts and Bi-Polar outputs instead of MOS-FETs and it had rack handles when I got it. Power was ALMOST doubled when bi-amped (500 up to 800 WPC @8 ohms).

I have been using them Bi-amped since I got the 2nd one nearly 20 years ago,

All OCMs were bi amp able as far as I know

I've had Levinsons, Krells, ARCs, Plinius and many others and these have no peers in my experience IMHO.....and BTW I've had a couple of phone convos with David and have always found him cordial and willing to give advice, etc.

Great Amps. Ive found when bridging the sonic character may shift somewhat

Good luck