Thanks @jasonbourne71 so if I understand I just don’t bridge to avoid stressing the power. That’s interesting a as to what stressing does. Shorten the life of the components? Isn’ta power supply just a coil of wire? Uses more energy? @mulveling i think you’ve touched on something. However this works it sounds great. I’m sure if I fiddle with it I may lose something, but such is this hobby. A bit of science and a bit of voodoo.
Bridged amps vs stereo vs monoblocks.
I don’t have any real issue, but I’m curious about how the bridging of an amp functions. I have a 80 W stereo amplifier, which can be bridged to provide 220 or so power into a load. This amp also has a hefty power supply which makes it work beautifully with my Magnepan’s. However, I used to have two of these amps bridged. One of which I lost due to it breaking so i replaced with an unbridged stereo amp, which I’m only using one channel. So what a strange hodgepodge of connections, right? It sounds great and I am have no problems but I’m curious if I was doing some thing that is easily changed to provide benefit. Mixing two different amps for example. Or I read when an amp is bridged it is sensing a four ohm load as a two ohm load and therefore what does that even mean? Also, using one part of a stereo amp is odd, but does that change anything, especially if there’s one power supply? Curious, if there any principles I could learn about this from those more familiar with those equations thanks!