Bigman80
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Post by Bigman80 on Mar 22, 2019 3:33:32 GMT
I’ve seen it mentioned lots of times that a high damping factor is important in an amp, especially with difficult speakers. Just wondered it it matches peoples experience?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 18:14:51 GMT
This is a good thread for someone like Jez Arkless to post in.
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Post by macca on Mar 22, 2019 18:35:43 GMT
He's not been back since he blew a fuse has he?
Anyway I know what he says about this which is that once the damping factor gets over about 20 it makes no difference to anything.
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Post by Bigman80 on Mar 22, 2019 20:10:22 GMT
He's not been back since he blew a fuse has he? Anyway I know what he says about this which is that once the damping factor gets over about 20 it makes no difference to anything. Nope but he’s still free to post if he’s looking in. It would be good to have Jet back and posting. Just cos he has different political views shouldn’t matter. 99% of talk here is about hifi, not politics. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 21:47:51 GMT
Damping factor is another way of expressing output impedance when talking of power amps specifically. The lower the output impedance the higher the damping factor. The resistance of the speaker itself means that really high damping factors are pretty academic at the end of the day.. hence, as Macca said above, 20 ish about the point where diminishing returns really kick in. There's a huge difference between say 4 and 10.. a worthwhile difference between 10 and 20, not really all that much difference between 20 and 50 and bugger all difference between 50 and 500...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2019 23:11:02 GMT
I knew that obviously . 🤪
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