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Does damping factor have any noticeable effect?
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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 31539" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: Doe damping factor have any noticeable effect?</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>It's exactly the opposite. Power will be lost in too thin wire. Imagine the extreme case where the speaker wire has 4 ohms of resistance and the speaker is 4 ohms. The wire will dissipate as much power as the speaker, so fully one half of the amplifier's output power is "lost" in the wire. </p><p></p><p>This is more of an issue with loudspeakers distributed around very large buildings, like background music systems. The strategy used there to reduce wire losses is to step up the amp output voltage to 70V or 100V nominal and use higher impedance speaker loads, so the current flowing in the wire is less. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 31539, member: 126"] Re: Doe damping factor have any noticeable effect? It's exactly the opposite. Power will be lost in too thin wire. Imagine the extreme case where the speaker wire has 4 ohms of resistance and the speaker is 4 ohms. The wire will dissipate as much power as the speaker, so fully one half of the amplifier's output power is "lost" in the wire. This is more of an issue with loudspeakers distributed around very large buildings, like background music systems. The strategy used there to reduce wire losses is to step up the amp output voltage to 70V or 100V nominal and use higher impedance speaker loads, so the current flowing in the wire is less. JR [/QUOTE]
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