Monostrapped Atma-sphere M-60


Well made a ton of changes to my system.
Fell into Atma-sphere great buys.  Waiting to get my M-60’s. Just wondering if down the road I got different speakers like Maggie’s or Higher End Vandersteens. Instead of buying a different Amp if it would make sense to Monostrap the M-60’s. Wondering if anyone had had experience doing this.
My system is as follows.
Quicksilver M-60 ( Replaced most likely by the Atma-sphere.
Atma-sphere point to point UV-1 updated with Vcaps. Next Power Regulation at the end of the month.
Bel Canto Dac 3 
Vandersteen 2ce Sig ii


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The M-60s or any of our amps are easily monostrapped. Many years ago the idea of making only one amplifier and you just got more if you needed more power did occur to us. But the market seemed a lot happier with different models.

You need a 'Y' adapter to parallel the inputs, and some jumpers to parallel the outputs. The resulting output power is slightly less then 3X the original 8 ohm power (60 watts) of a single set of M-60s.

The output parallel connection must be broken in order to set the DC Offset correctly.

Just my opinion of course but I really don't think its a good idea to make **any** amplifier work hard for a living! You just make more distortion. In this regard 8 ohm speakers (all other things being equal) will always sound better than 4 ohm speakers and 16 ohm speakers (all other things being equal) will always sound better than 8 ohm speakers. But all things are never equal...

Happy Holidays everyone!