Bryston Cubed Amps in Bridge Mode

With most bridged amplifiers, distortion goes up and the ability to drive lower impedance goes down. Who wants that?

The exceptions are amplifiers that "bridge" by paralleling outputs, such the McIntosh MC75. But even then, some users say it sounds better in stereo.

@12many I didn’t do enough experimentation to say one way or another that I preferred vertical to horizontal or vice versa.  It certainly is more convenient to have one amp close to one speaker and thus used only short cables.  But overall or in either case, having a channel (135 watts in my case into 8 ohms) to run the woofers and one to run the midrange/tweeter separately is like what they do with active speakers.  There’s a lot more headroom, everything sounds clearer, and strain free.  I assume the amplifiers also see a different (and perhaps easier) load to drive as well since the impedence load we generally see for a speaker is all the drivers taken together.  But I’m no expert, just a guess on my part,

@jimmy2615 Thanks.  That's helpful.