1. Higher damping factor usually means tigther and better impulse response, or put it another way to low damping factor is flabby and uncontrolled bass, but this also depends on wich speaker you attempt to drive.
Ouch http://www.stereophile.com/content/paradigm-reference-studio100-v3-loudspeaker-measurements Your speaker have a very complex impedance plot and are down at 2,5 ohm and complex 3 rd order fillters. i would try a stable and powerfull amp here brand names ? I'm not good at that game anymoore but Bryston is always mentioned if one whats technically well designed amps, wich is the kind of amp such speakers need. 4. House sound ? Imho there are some traps comparing stuff in a shop " exciting " would often be irritating in your face sound in the long run. The more bland initially uninvoling thing may be the more correct rendering of the recording , you need to take some amps home and try for a longer time with your normal way of listening. Also modern well designed ( no voodoo engineering ) amps should be very similar to each other if used inside their design parameters, not clipping etc . Your speaker seems capable of weeding out such amps that does not perform well :) There is a myth that powerfull amps sounds " powerfull " and not as refined as a smaller amp. It's the oposite, if the amp can drive the speaker at any level you would get a more relaxed and unstrained sound. physics wins, no selecting of audiophile components can compensate for lack of power. Ofcourse if you are listening at low levels in a small room you migth not need the most powerfull amps. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88452 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
