In the application notes on calculating the performance of an amplifer/speaker combination under, ' AHB2 THD+N and Power into 4 OHM BRIDGED MONO' it shows THD+N is .00083% at 518 W. It reaches 1% at about 590 W.
Running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode and 4 Ohm Speaker
Does running this amp in bridge mode mean each channel will see half the impedance i.e 2 Ohm each when connected to a 4 Ohm speaker. If so will this cause a problem when the speaker dips to 3 or 2 ohms?.
Anyone running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode with low impedance speakers?.
Anyone running Benchmark AHB2 in bridged mode with low impedance speakers?.
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@georgehifi This article https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/ahb2-driving-pmc-mb2s-studio-monitors also talks about second iteration of using ABH2 as mono blocks. Seems like outstanding question is just the damping factor everything else looks excellent to me. I will ask this question to Benchmark and see what they say. Benchmark does seem to perform quite well in bridged mode, in-fact lot of thought went into making it work in that mode. That is why they never made it put out a lot of watts in stereo mode. Even at $6k and putting out 500w per channel at non existent distortion and quite good voltage peak 64.4(beats the requirement I have which is 54) is a deal compared to what is in the market today. Please feel to correct me if I am wrong. Only Bryston 4B3 comes close at this price range and it suffers from cross over distortion that benchmark does not, if I understand it right. |
I’ve tried geek101 with links to pro and cons and every which way, the site and manual, and post you’ve presented are just too ambiguous. Purchase another one I hope for your sake two bridged amps can do it as good as just one bigger non bridged amp can, I seriously doubt it. Cheers George |
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