RE: Damping

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RE: Damping

Posted by Davey on June 29, 2020 at 18:55:43

In Reply to: RE: Damping posted by neolith on June 29, 2020 at 10:50:13:

The point is.....most speaker systems are nowhere near a constant 8 ohm load. They have a varying impedance curve that can wobble all over the place owing to resonances, crossover alignment, driver inductance rise, etc, etc, etc.

Damping Factor, per-se, is not the issue, but rather those varying impedance loads causing frequency shifts when using amplifiers with high-ish output resistance. This can be somewhat significant and this is what accounts (primarily) for subjective differences between various tube amplifiers relative to solid-state amps.

This is easy to experiment with. Just take your nice solid-state amp and add a 2 ohm resistor in series with the output. A sensitivity loss, obviously, but you will hear a tonal balance change as well.

Dave.

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