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<blockquote data-quote="Buck" data-source="post: 8800872" data-attributes="member: 591582"><p>I totally think there should be more digestible amp info where you could see more about the quality of the amp, especially with sub amps, just because of all the hell some people put them through. I don’t fully understand the extent of what damping factor is, but I’ve genuinely noticed a difference in comparing common amps that a lot of people use, especially within the same brand. It’s still just numbers on a screen, and amps are complicated.</p><p></p><p>I’m just educated guessing on this, but I suspect damping factor has to do with the load/stress the woofer has on mosfets when they’re opening their gates to boost the signal waveform. You may not need hardly any damping if you have super awesome mosfets with digital amps, because their material and design qualities allow them to function properly under high stress. If the output filtration part contained capacitors that would dampen the electricity created and/or influenced by too rapid/strong of coil motion, that would make a lot of sense, to me. Like in a full bridge, the mosfets seem fundamentally more likely to have problem dealing with high powered and high coil speed (1-way) woofer movements, unless it had good output filtration, in the same way a wire heats up from too much current. I think output filtration works two ways, because the electricity is AC, and both speaker terminals flip polarities, so the sub can send energy back into the amp, if you have a lower end full bridge, for example. I highly suspect that’s why they’ll cut out or not sound good under some stressful conditions. Just a theory. Not an amp expert.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck, post: 8800872, member: 591582"] I totally think there should be more digestible amp info where you could see more about the quality of the amp, especially with sub amps, just because of all the hell some people put them through. I don’t fully understand the extent of what damping factor is, but I’ve genuinely noticed a difference in comparing common amps that a lot of people use, especially within the same brand. It’s still just numbers on a screen, and amps are complicated. I’m just educated guessing on this, but I suspect damping factor has to do with the load/stress the woofer has on mosfets when they’re opening their gates to boost the signal waveform. You may not need hardly any damping if you have super awesome mosfets with digital amps, because their material and design qualities allow them to function properly under high stress. If the output filtration part contained capacitors that would dampen the electricity created and/or influenced by too rapid/strong of coil motion, that would make a lot of sense, to me. Like in a full bridge, the mosfets seem fundamentally more likely to have problem dealing with high powered and high coil speed (1-way) woofer movements, unless it had good output filtration, in the same way a wire heats up from too much current. I think output filtration works two ways, because the electricity is AC, and both speaker terminals flip polarities, so the sub can send energy back into the amp, if you have a lower end full bridge, for example. I highly suspect that’s why they’ll cut out or not sound good under some stressful conditions. Just a theory. Not an amp expert. [/QUOTE]
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