Hypex Ncore NC400

IMHO, No need to. There is plenty of power, speed and capacity. Also in bridged mode, the current is limited to what is there on unbridged mode. Unless you really the voltage, bridging does not provide more.

not necessarily - the Spectron for example is a whole level better as a monoblock in bridged mode - - myself as well as many other users can attest to that. Spectron has plenty of power for most speakers so its not a power issue. Spectron claims cancellation of distortion products is the reason

Since the Ncore already has such low claimed distortion perhaps it would not have such benefits from bridged?

In any case, I would definitely be curious to hear from someone who tries it. . .

Hello Dan,

Yes, we do claim distortion cancelation when our stereo amp, Musician III is used in fully balanced monoblock configuration.

There is no any proprietary design. None what so ever. Any (transistor) stereo amp can be configured the same into fully balanced monoblock and on paper will have distortion cancelation too and Distortion-free sound is glorious...as you noted.

In real life if you want distortions cancelation then these from right channel must be equial to these from left channel and subctracting you have zero. Simple? In order to have it your parts tolerance (on right and left channels) MUST (M-U-S-T) be very high - otherwise one can create even more distortion.

Also, amplifier in such configuration has double slew rate (same raise time...but one channel go to +Signal and another to -Signal is distance of 2x Signal), double bandwidth, entire power supply dedicated to one speaker instead of two as was in stereo etc.

NCore has good specs on the paper, so one can try...

Simon

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=106827.0

Finally had a chance to hear the nCores in my system. My current amps are the Joule Electra VZN100's.

The nCores were very difficult to assess. At first, I thought they sounded good but something was missing. Trying to get a description, all I could think of was polished. We listened for days but found ourselves not so into our music collection. I just couldn't stay connected to the music. My audio buddy stopped by as he was very interested in these nCores but thought they sounded compressed. When we returned the Joules into action it was an immediate reminder just how amazing these tube amps are. We are both disappointed with the nCores but given the number of folks who love these things, we want to try another pair. I do have 97db sensitivity on the speakers. Maybe that has something to do with it?

I don't want to like the Joules, too hot, too weird. But I can't find anything even close that connects us with the music.

Maybe there was something wrong with these nCores?