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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.
Wrong, but thanks for playing.
Well Graham actually knows this stuff pretty well, but he
seems to be kinda locked up in ancient terminology, that as
Dick Pierce says relate to parameters that are better
expressed in other terms.
Everbody should forget damping factor which is a joint
property of loads and amps, and just talk about amplifier
source impedance to its load, which is purely a property of
the amp.
If you know something about the load, its easy math to turn
source impedance numbers into damping factors.