From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!cornell!vax135!ariel!orion!lime!houti!hogpc!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!emrath 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 #R:whuxk:-15600:uiucdcs:22700009:000:902 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.