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<blockquote data-quote="jujumantb" data-source="post: 806926" data-attributes="member: 555241"><p>Two waveforms travelling through a wire wont magically make one bigger waveform.&nbsp; Strapping amps is more complicated than that.&nbsp; Strapping is basically like bridging a 2-channel amp.&nbsp; You take 2 channels and combine them into one, but technically, you arent just &quot;combining&quot; them.&nbsp; One channel handles the postive (top half) of the wave and the other handles the negative &quot;bottom half&quot; of the wave.&nbsp; To do this, the channels have to be identical 180 degree opposites of eachother.&nbsp; Thats why headunits arent bridgable, they dont have the circuitry that does that.&nbsp; This is also why when you bridge a 2-channel amp, it specifically tells you exactly which terminals to use to bridge, they are the ones that have 180 degree phase shifts of eachother.&nbsp; It is also VERY important that the gains be set totally equal in both channels.&nbsp; The master/slave attributes of strappable amps take care of this need, and in 2-channel amps you only have 1 gain anyways.&nbsp; Setting gains by hand to get them equal is not an option, one half of the signal would inevitably be larger than the other.&nbsp; Kinda confusing stuff I know, but put simply, you cant strap any old amps without the phases beign inverted and equal gains.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jujumantb, post: 806926, member: 555241"] Two waveforms travelling through a wire wont magically make one bigger waveform. Strapping amps is more complicated than that. Strapping is basically like bridging a 2-channel amp. You take 2 channels and combine them into one, but technically, you arent just "combining" them. One channel handles the postive (top half) of the wave and the other handles the negative "bottom half" of the wave. To do this, the channels have to be identical 180 degree opposites of eachother. Thats why headunits arent bridgable, they dont have the circuitry that does that. This is also why when you bridge a 2-channel amp, it specifically tells you exactly which terminals to use to bridge, they are the ones that have 180 degree phase shifts of eachother. It is also VERY important that the gains be set totally equal in both channels. The master/slave attributes of strappable amps take care of this need, and in 2-channel amps you only have 1 gain anyways. Setting gains by hand to get them equal is not an option, one half of the signal would inevitably be larger than the other. Kinda confusing stuff I know, but put simply, you cant strap any old amps without the phases beign inverted and equal gains. [/QUOTE]

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