Colin B
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Rectification is the conversion of AC to DC so you really only need one device per circuit. Having a second would make no sense. Similarly, negative voltage and positive voltage are the same except for differences in reference points since at the end of the day overall voltage is nothing other than relative difference between some reference that gets declared "ground" and the output of the power supply, with overall voltage being simply output-reference. There isn't any difference in the actual power supplies, instead the difference is entirely in what your circuit topology is and while my circuit design skills are pretty rusty I'm fairly certain that you can use the same power supply (computers use the same power converter to energize both the positive and negative rails for example). As for usage, opamps need negative voltage (aka negative feedback) for stabilization, so any circuit topology that replicates an opamp will need it. But still, it's about reference points as opposed to actually being anything special.
EDIT: there are amps with two rectifiers. On here the mini torii, full-size torii, and the ZMA all have dual rectifiers. Similarly in other places. These are all true dual-mono amps with each input transformer and rectifier servicing their half of the chassis.
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