I haven't used this machine, but I think the magnetic "dampening system" is sort of incorrectly named. It's really just functioning as a return spring on, say, a vivace or halo or even beast or swiss, that's why you have to take it out when you use carts (just like like removing the stay up spring in these other machines when using carts).
If you would consider these other machines "dampened", well then, yeah the Valour is too. O

Or am I missing something completely and it does more than a spring would do?