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Does damping factor have any noticeable effect?
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<blockquote data-quote="Langston Holland" data-source="post: 31522" data-attributes="member: 171"><p>Re: Doe damping factor have any noticeable effect?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Richard:</p><p></p><p>Take this stuff outside and find out.</p><p></p><p>Steal your neighbor's old 100' extension cord, cut off the ends, attach whatever connectors are needed to drive the sub and let it rip. Swap it out with your normal 3 meter cable and let it rip again. Swap out amps and let it...</p><p></p><p>Thoughts:</p><p></p><p>1. You'll be doing well to keep the damping factor above 20.</p><p></p><p>2. Ray Rayburn has the <a href="http://www.soundfirst.com/LZ_DF_calculator.zip" target="_blank">best spreadsheet</a> available on this.</p><p></p><p>3. Keep the round-trip resistance of your loudspeaker cable </= to 5% of the nominal load impedance you are driving.</p><p></p><p>4. Fix the extension cable and give it back when you're done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Langston Holland, post: 31522, member: 171"] Re: Doe damping factor have any noticeable effect? Hi Richard: Take this stuff outside and find out. Steal your neighbor's old 100' extension cord, cut off the ends, attach whatever connectors are needed to drive the sub and let it rip. Swap it out with your normal 3 meter cable and let it rip again. Swap out amps and let it... Thoughts: 1. You'll be doing well to keep the damping factor above 20. 2. Ray Rayburn has the [url=http://www.soundfirst.com/LZ_DF_calculator.zip]best spreadsheet[/url] available on this. 3. Keep the round-trip resistance of your loudspeaker cable </= to 5% of the nominal load impedance you are driving. 4. Fix the extension cable and give it back when you're done. [/QUOTE]
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