Hello Nilthepill:
Yo are on the right track except you strapped your amps mono. By bridging you increased output power hower reduced current from the amps thus losing some control of the speaker by the amplifier as now the amps see the load at half the previous impedance. In other words, If your speakers are a 4 ohm load, in bridged mode each amp sees a load of 2 ohms. This would account for the bright and hardness you now experience!
If you can biwire your speakers, remove the jumpers and do so. I am assuming that you have one long run of interconnect, and have the amps next to the speakers. If so, you'll find with a short run of speaker cable you can use almost anything! As to splitters, even a cheap pair of Rat Shack splitters will give you an idea of what is possible.
Use them on the amp end and then use one channel of each amp on the woofers, and the other channel of the amp on the tweeters. I can virtually guarantee this will result in improved sound!
Paul
Yo are on the right track except you strapped your amps mono. By bridging you increased output power hower reduced current from the amps thus losing some control of the speaker by the amplifier as now the amps see the load at half the previous impedance. In other words, If your speakers are a 4 ohm load, in bridged mode each amp sees a load of 2 ohms. This would account for the bright and hardness you now experience!
If you can biwire your speakers, remove the jumpers and do so. I am assuming that you have one long run of interconnect, and have the amps next to the speakers. If so, you'll find with a short run of speaker cable you can use almost anything! As to splitters, even a cheap pair of Rat Shack splitters will give you an idea of what is possible.
Use them on the amp end and then use one channel of each amp on the woofers, and the other channel of the amp on the tweeters. I can virtually guarantee this will result in improved sound!
Paul