converting stereo power amps to mono


I will shortly have one superfluous Sonance 260 from one system and no amp for my Chapmans in a separate systwm. Am I better off dropping the Sonance and looking for a $3-500 dollar power amp or picking up another 260 and figuring out how to convert them to mono power sources?
jgb1166

Showing 1 response by magfan

Almarg,
Did you mean feed the same signal (mono) to each channel of a stereo amp? If so, you are correct that the output between the 2 hots will be essentially zero, showing only the channel imbalance....which should be inaudible.
If, however you feed a stereo amp a stereo signal THAN go from hot 2 hot, you will get an output. Back at the 'dawn' of multichannel....QS / SQ matrix and such, I would connect a pair of speakers normally as fronts, and another pair, from hot to hot.....put 'em in the back of the room and instant ambiance. No fine tuning possible, but as proof of principle, it worked. I think that was the principle behind the original 'dyanquad'....the speaker adaptor they sold.