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<blockquote data-quote="Riley Casey" data-source="post: 82563" data-attributes="member: 125"><p>Re: Fun with Damping Factor</p><p></p><p>200 ft of 14 gauge wire represents a series resistance of over half an ohm. Running any sort of series-parallel configuration puts at least one voice coil between any given speaker and the amp output. If you are trying to deliver large amounts of power to low frequency speakers that really depend on that low impedance / high damping factor control that an amp can exert on a big, heavy voice coil you're in a can't get there from here situation. If this is a band limited signal driving some cone mid range or high frequency drivers then moving up a couple wire gauges will probably work fine in series parallel pairs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley Casey, post: 82563, member: 125"] Re: Fun with Damping Factor 200 ft of 14 gauge wire represents a series resistance of over half an ohm. Running any sort of series-parallel configuration puts at least one voice coil between any given speaker and the amp output. If you are trying to deliver large amounts of power to low frequency speakers that really depend on that low impedance / high damping factor control that an amp can exert on a big, heavy voice coil you're in a can't get there from here situation. If this is a band limited signal driving some cone mid range or high frequency drivers then moving up a couple wire gauges will probably work fine in series parallel pairs. [/QUOTE]
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