scannon18
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There has been a lot of talk about damping factor and impedance response around here lately. Such things as "sensitive headphone drivers do not need damping factors as speaker drivers do" and such. I am wondering if a headphone such as the Denon D2000 (which has an impedance of 25ohms across the board) if at all susceptible to the problems associated with low damping factor. After all, if the output impedance of the amp is high enough to distort the frequency response, won't it equally distort it and, thus, not really distort it at all?
For example, my Fiio E9 has an output impedance of 10. This is "too high" according to a lot of people. It is a damping factor of 2.5, well below the damping factor of 8 commonly pointed to as the minimum damping factor one wants. But does it really make a difference?
For headphones with flat impedance response, does the damping factor make much a difference, if any difference at all?
For example, my Fiio E9 has an output impedance of 10. This is "too high" according to a lot of people. It is a damping factor of 2.5, well below the damping factor of 8 commonly pointed to as the minimum damping factor one wants. But does it really make a difference?
For headphones with flat impedance response, does the damping factor make much a difference, if any difference at all?