How much damping factor is enough?
Damping factors over ten are acceptable with numbers in the 50-100 range being a good average, but you may sometimes see numbers as high as 200 or 300 or even up into the low thousands.
What is a good damping factor for car amplifiers?
Anything above 100 tends to be very good while below 30 is poor. Most aftermarket car audio amplifiers to date won’t have such poor damping factor specifications to the point where it would become a concern for the average listener if they follow specs.
How important is damping factor?
In simplistic terms, it’s a measure of the ability of the amplifier to control overshoot, to stop a driver from moving and overcome back EMF. An amp with low output impedance and high damping factor limits this kind of sloppy driver behavior. It’s sort of like engine-braking in a car.
Can you hear damping factor?
Amplifiers with a damping factor of less than 300 may have an audible impact on the frequency response of the playback system.
Is 200 damping factor good?
The damping factors you see published as amp specs are for the amp only, not referenced to an entire system. Higher is better, and you’ll often see quite high numbers, 200, 300, even 3000 or higher. System damping factors over 10 are generally acceptable. The higher the better.
How is damping factor calculated?
The Damping Factor of an amplifier is defined as the ratio of its rated load impedance to its output (source) impedance. Damping factor can easily be calculated by measuring an amplifier’s output voltage with and without its rated load impedance attached (typically 4 Ω or 8 Ω).
Is high damping factor good?
Higher is better, and you’ll often see quite high numbers, 200, 300, even 3000 or higher. System damping factors over 10 are generally acceptable. The higher the better.
Can damping factor more than 1?
Older amplifiers, plus modern triode and even solid-state amplifiers with low negative feedback, will tend to have damping factors closer to unity, or even less than 1 (very low damping factor/high output impedance amplifiers approximate current sources).
What is the function of damping ratio?
The damping ratio is a measure describing how rapidly the oscillations decay from one bounce to the next. The damping ratio is a system parameter, denoted by ζ (zeta), that can vary from undamped (ζ = 0), underdamped (ζ < 1) through critically damped (ζ = 1) to overdamped (ζ > 1).
Is a high damping factor good?