Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing

I was watching a YouTube video from REL about connecting their subs to class D monoblocks. They recommend connecting their red wire to the amp’s positive speaker post and the black wire to chassis...not the negative speaker post. I’d prefer to hear from you if this is how it should be connected or if you recommend something different?

@veerossi I would hook it up to the red and black. If you run into trouble with buzz or hum, you can try tying to chassis, but I don't think its necessary.

Also in the hum and buzz department: some preamps and sources are not grounded. If using one of them and also the single-ended input of the amp and you have a buzz or hum, place a jumper between pins 1 and 3 of the XLR. You will only need this if the preamp or source is not Grounded.

@pstores i just unboxed and hooked up my Atma-Sphere monoblocks this morning.  Cold and straight out of the box i was very impressed.  They sound very clean, pristine, neutral and very natural sounding.  I am letting the play all day streaming Qobuz.  Cant wait to hear them 10 hours later.

Cool. Or, even better +200 hours.

I heard them at a show with the Big Classic Audio speakers that Atmasphere typically partners with at shows. I couldn’t find a fault. Then they switched to the Atmas tube amp and frankly I struggled to hear a difference. So there you go FWIW. Overall teh Atmasphere/Classic Audio room sound was teh best I had heard to-date compared to prior years where it was tube amps only. For a year or two prior, the sound came off too me as a little bright and somewhat fatiguing for whatever reason.  THis was with tube amps only.  Probably they adjusted better to acoustics the big conference room they were in each time.  The room is usually manned by folks from Classic Audio, I believe.

Glad to hear you went for them @jaymark. It’s been just over 8 months since I’ve had mine and still loving them. Not missing my old tube integrated at all. I’d highly recommend the Atma-Sphere MP3.3 preamp as well.