G --- I could be wrong, but pretty sure when talking to Bill a few years back the 4180 was NOT bridgeable and the thought was to make a "pro" version one day with gains, HPF's and bridgeable.
But I'm with you. Why would you want to with no access to any controls.
My bad. It's been a couple years since I had the 4180 but I was sure there was labels on the amp showing how to bridge it. My memory is going to hell in a handbasket. Thanks for the clarification Bro!
My bad. It's been a couple years since I had the 4180 but I was sure there was labels on the amp showing how to bridge it. My memory is going to hell in a handbasket. Thanks for the clarification Bro!
Close! The labels were for running it in parallel.
Remember the 4180 is four small little amps in a box. You would have to rewire them internally to bridge them.
Mike told me that there was a way to bridge it before I bought my Arc. I didn't buy it for the exact reason as stated, I can't control the output. I was guessing around 400 bridged per side. So now he says you can't? I would be one of the few that would be able to use it bridged minus the control part (head unit could do it but prefer not to)
from my understanding "there is a way" but not out of the box. You need to pop it open, surpassing the skill level or desire of most.
We didn't get that far in the conversation. Just asked and he said there is a way, then the mention of the 45hz 1st order xover was mentioned. Was pretty dead set on not selling one fully passive, said he would but really didn't want to. Not sure who knows they run their amps 45 hz 1st order. Not a bad thing but I don't like to run 3 different xovers between amp, head unit, and passive xovet network for components.
07-29-2016, 09:46 AM
