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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.

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>	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