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In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Parasound P5 Preamplifier (SS) posted by skolis on March 1, 2015 at 13:50:12:
Just a quick reply.
I'm off to the Home Despot for a few 'project' items.
First, the A23, like its bigger brother, the A21 is NOT rated for 4 ohm bridged operation. It might do it, but I won't be the one to run that test. Especially at higher levels.
I DO run one amp per speaker. One channel to the bass part of the panel, the OTHER channel to the mid/tweet. Jumpers are GONE but not forgotten.
And since I low-cut the bass part of the panel at about 60hz or so, i save enough amp power to bump the 50:50 power point to about the 600hz crossover of the panel.
I'm NOT about to 'spllit' the amps and run bass thru one amp and the mid/tweet thru the OTHER. I'd need 2 more runs of speaker wire in that case. Maybe replace what I now use with 12ga Belden from BJC? I'd need just OVER a total of 30 FEET. With one amp behind each speaker I make do with 2x4 foot runs at each speaker. And have plenty of lee-way.
The ULTIMATE GOAL is a passive line level crossover between pre and main amp. BOOM! End of any power problems since that configuration would net me as much as 3db and exceed the power of a SINGLE A21.
Too much is never enough
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