Tagged: damping factor

Damping factor sounds like a real engineering number, and it is, but past a certain point it stops telling you anything useful about how an amp will sound.

Impedance dips scare buyers more than they should. Here's how to read a speaker's impedance curve and match it to an amp that won't run out of puff.

Damping factor gets thrown around a lot, but it only matters in specific, measurable situations. Here's when it actually changes what you hear.

Slew rate, damping factor and THD get quoted constantly. I explain which ones genuinely correlate with what you'll hear, and which are decoration.

Speaker cable gauge and length can measurably shift frequency response over long runs. Here's the maths, the thresholds that matter, and where to stop spending.

Damping factor gets thrown around like a quality score. It isn't. Here's what the number actually measures and when it matters.

Negative feedback gets blamed for "solid-state sound" more than any other design choice. Here's what it actually does, measured, and why the folklore doesn't hold up.

Damping factor and output impedance appear on every amp spec sheet, but few buyers know what they're really measuring. Here's what the numbers mean for your speakers.