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what is dynamic headroom?

what is dynamic headroom and do i need to worry about it? i am purchasing a used B&K st-3140 amp and after looking at the specs, it has the lowest dynamic headroom of any B&K amp at 1.0dB. how does this affect sound? same thing with dampening factor? the B&K's is 100. what does this mean?
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clueless
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Hi
Here are three decent online articles on damping.
Probably in the order they should be read if you are not familiar with the topic.

Murphy: http://www.trueaudio.com/post_013.htm
Pierce: http://www.diyspeakers.net/Articles/Richard%20Pierce%20DAMPING%20FACTOR.pdf
Tomcik: http://www.otlamp.com/articles/tomcik/index.html
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