Quote Originally Posted by FLZapped
It also has to do with the electrical characteristics of the devices used, the output topology, including what may have been placed in the output after the output devices, such as oscillation suppression circuits and transformers.
I see three overall possibilities:

1. Crown has discovered something that no other amplifier designer has.

2. The design and device characteristics resulting in an extremely high DF have no deleterious effect on overall musical reproduction.

3. Crown chose to optimize the amp for a different result.

Here is their explanation:

"They also feature a damping factor of better than 20,000 for absolute speaker control with a tight, well-defined low end."

I would vote for answer # 3.

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