DOH!

ya know, you're right about that William... i should have thought of that... i do that all the time at work. even getting pumps worth $10k for trial runs, w/ the vendor hoping he can sell us a few dozen down the road.

and w/ the number of traditional XLR connectors and wiring we were buying from my normal cable house - i'm sure they'd have sent me a few... oh well.




re: stealing them?

not really my style. not to mention, these aren't something that your typical RShack would stock. heck not even the local instrument stores stock 5-pin XLR.

 

i understand your point, however his statement from his first post:

implied that he was bridging channels 1 and 3, and bridging channels 2 and 4. this isn't typical by any means as generally amps are bridged front left and right, and rear left and right. i was simply working from the information he provided us (erroneous as it was).

thus, my statement was correct. he only needs to send signals to 1 of the 2 inputs for each bridged channel. if he is bridging 1+3 and 2+4, then he needs to send signals to 1 and 2. if he's bridging 1+2 and 3+4 (which is what REALLY is going on), signals go to 1 and 3 as you pointed out.

at the end of the day however, we are making the same point -- the OP's statements were just confusing, and i still believe (whether he intended it or not) he was making a mountain out of a mole hill.

 

However you'd call the mix-up would be up to you. And my posts may appear confusing, because the documentation was confusing.

I reiterate the problem was there a switch labeled 1+3/2+4 on the amp which is documented in the manual summing the inputs and sending to one output (which would be a lamen's interpretation of bridging if I've ever heard one). While there is a diagram later that describes a 2-channel system but nothing indicating if this was bridged operation.

Anyway I didn't write the manual, but hopefully this post will help someone down the road.

 

i guess you could interpret that as a layman's version of bridging. i wouldn't have but then again i'm not a layman. to me, the 1+3/2+4 signal setting just means you're sending the same input to both the 1 and 3 channels and the 2 and 4 channels. ala, a HU that has 2 pre-amp outs to drive a 4 channel amplifier. perhaps i'm reading too much into it. *shrug*

bridging requires inverting the signal, which isn't mentioned, so that isn't much help.

i guess that's what we get: Japanese to Engrish translation...

 

Not at all! I am sorta similar.....always interested in electronics, just never had the means. Now that I have the means, I am loving it more and more! I just got done installing an Audiobahn A2002, a set of Phoenix Gold components, and a LOC into a fellow member's S. Took 9 hours! (a few bumps / unscheduled delays along the way.....you know how it goes)

I agree.....this post was WAAAAY to long for something this simple....

John