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- From: tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode)
- Subject: Re: Speaker wires
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.080344.5092@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- References: <1i4pl0INNbmu@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <24536@alice.att.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 08:03:44 GMT
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- In article <24536@alice.att.com> andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
- >In article <1i4pl0INNbmu@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- >>
- >> Can anyone describe the differences between speaker wires? What
- >> characteristic should we pay most attention to? What is a good gauge to
- >> use....etc? Thanks.
- >
- > for your edification i replay the relevant part of teh FAQ.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- > You should have an EXTREMELY solid connection between cable and
- > speaker. Speakers operate at very low impedances, so that bad
- > connections will create significant artifacts or signal losses at any
- > power level. For example, if the connection has a linear resistance
- > of just 1 ohm, the speaker damping factor will be dramatically
- > reduced, making bass muddy.
-
- I assume we're talking about the electrical rather than mechanical damping
- here (at least I can't think of a reason why adding a DC resistance would
- affect mechanical damping) in which case I would think that the only way
- in which the damping factor could be dramatically reduced by putting a
- one Ohm resistance in series with the speaker is if the DC resistance of
- the low-frequency drivers and associated crossover network is dramatically
- less than one Ohm, something that I suspect is rarely seen in real-world
- speakers.
-
- Am I mistaken in my understanding of damping factor here? Anyone else have
- any light to shed on this?
-
- Trygve
-
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