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This is design is very similar to the National Semiconductor BPA-200 (Bridge/Parallel Amplifier) which uses 4x LM3886 per channel and an input buffer:

My one will use 2x BrianGT LM4780 kits and a balanced line driver to bridge them, like this:

The total effect is (2x LM3886's paralleled) x2 Bridged and should give approx 225 watts into 8 ohm and 335 watts into 4 ohm when used with a sufficient power supply.

The line driver part is based on the DRV134 and a PCB from digi01, you can see the details here.

In the end mine was dual mono in a recycled amp case using 2x 300VA (18VACx2) toroidal transformers, 54,400uF of capacitance per channel with a snubber. The DRV134s add 6dB of gain so I set the LM4780s to about 16x gain to compensate (they are set to 33 normally). I get no DC offset, no hum, no crackle or thump on turn on or turn off, silent as.

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