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Newsgroups: net.audio
Title: Re: connecting cables - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1704
Posted: Thu Mar 17 22:25:35 1983
Received: Tue Mar 22 06:26:01 1983

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uiucdcs!emrath    Mar 17 07:26:00 1983

I also would like to flame about heavy gauge wire and special cables
for power amp to speaker connections.
I did some reading at the engineering library and all the technical
literature that I found said a damping factor of 4 was adequate.
My equipment isn't super and my ears aren't golden, but what I tried
was to slap some 8 ohm power resisters in series with my speakers in
order to artificially lower the damping factor.
I could hear no difference in sound quality. A bigger effect was
the 6dB drop in the noise floor (the speakers are 8 ohms), 
although this isn't important either, considering the noise levels
of today's source devices (disc, tape, fm).

I believe the colorations of microphones, studios, equalization and
compression (provided by the recording engineer), recording/playback
equipment, and especially speakers are far more significant than
those caused by poor damping factor.