"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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wrote:
As a sign of integrity from a magazine supposedly helpful to
audiophiles.
Believe it or not there are people who might actually think a Shakti
stone
might acutally do something for their stereo, just like there are people
who
think that damping factor is an important specification for amplifiers.
Damping factor *is* important albeit the the typical numbers quoted for SS
amps
are so high as to be beyond worrying about from the perspective of
choosing one
over another based on that parameter.
Graham
For small signal conditions, yes.
But have you experienced the condition where one amplifier which is rated
nearly flat to 20 Hz provides noticeably inferior bass to another with
similar specs? The reason is that damping factor is not reported for large
signals. IMHO, this is one of the major shortcomings in the quantitative
analysis of amplifier performance.