And of course you listened blind and level-matched, so that your ingoing opinion (that a higher damping factor results in tighter bass) did not have any influence on what you thought you heard.
Right? Right???
When I decided to compare them I already owned both for some time so this wasn’t new purchase bias. I knew it had higher damping factor but at that point didn’t even think about it. Truth being wanted to get rid of Purifi monos as it was just too many boxes kicking around - and that’s as the main reason for this test. So bias was to hear the same sell monos and happy days.
I see some of you don’t think damping factor has much importance - no audible difference between 300 and 1600/2000.
Some people say it depends on speakers you pair it with - so if someone listened to amp with high damping but different speakers this is not necessarily apples to apples comparison. Some speakers apparently favor higher damping some would sound worse. People often pair KEFs with Hegel even though it measures not so great, but coincidentally has got high damping factor - coincidence? Or we assume all those people that spend 5k on the amp never heard any different amp in their life and they just blindly decided on Hegel? Btw I’m not advocating for Hegel, it’s interesting what makes it so people so like it.
So perhaps KEFs do react differently.
Maybe the lack of difference some of you experienced can exist with my experience of hearing it because we have compared on different set of speakers? otherwise it’s hard to explain it for me why the difference. Def not trying here to say I know more than any of you but it’s interesting what some of you experience comparing them - and I’m not assuming you’re wrong what you’ve heard but at the same time I know what I’ve heard. Must be some logical explanation, but bias isn’t it.