A lot of bridgeable amps sound worse in bridged mode than in stereo. I cannot say about yours. An alternative would be to use one amp to biamp each of your Studio 20s with one channel powering the tweeter terminals and the other powering the woofer terminals. Essentially you will have the benefits of bi-amplification and mono blocks. It should be easy to compare the mono mode if you set them up like this.
Does bridging give you the monoblock sound??
I have a Parasound HCA 1500a which is rated at 205wpc @ 8 ohms. I'm considering buying a second one and running them in bridged mode which will give me 630 wpc @ 8 ohms. Will this have the same effect as using actual monoblocks? From what I've read is that the major plus that monoblocks offer is imaging. That's what I'm striving for,,,,,,,,,,,pinpoint imaging. I know that there are a lot of other things that contribute to good imaging but I'm just curious about this aspect of it.
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