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Emotiva Xpa 2 as a mono block.

Hello need some advice. I have one Xpa 2 gen 1 amp thinking of getting a second one same gen 1 and doing them as mono blocks.

My owners manuals states that in the this mode speakers should be a 8 ohms.
My Wharfedale 250 are rated 6 ohms is there any way I could configure this to run both the amps  and speakers safely.

Thanks Wayne 
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To add to Auxinput’s comment, in stereo mode your amp is capable of supplying about 400 watts into 6 ohms, while the recommended range of amplifier power for the Wharfedale Diamond 250 speaker is 25 to 200 watts. So the speaker almost certainly wouldn’t be able to handle the additional power capability that would be provided by using two of these amps in bridged mode, even if the amps could handle the 6 ohm load (spec’d as reaching a minimum of 3.1 ohms) in that mode.

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-- Al
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