Does bridging give you the monoblock sound??


I have a Parasound HCA 1500a which is rated at 205wpc @ 8 ohms. I'm considering buying a second one and running them in bridged mode which will give me 630 wpc @ 8 ohms. Will this have the same effect as using actual monoblocks? From what I've read is that the major plus that monoblocks offer is imaging. That's what I'm striving for,,,,,,,,,,,pinpoint imaging. I know that there are a lot of other things that contribute to good imaging but I'm just curious about this aspect of it.
meech33

Showing 1 response by eldartford

When biamping, the two amplifiers serve totally different types of drivers. Why then would the relatively subtle differences between two decent amplifiers be important, as some people say in favor of the vertical configuration?

As a serial biamper, let me say that I have configured systems for two reasons... (1)...To put the more powerful amplifier where power is needed...(2)....To put the better quality (low distortion) amplifier in the HI slot where distortion would be most noticable.

Each driver in your speaker system is optimized for a particular frequency range. Ideally the different amplifiers would also be optimized according to their application.