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Once a woofer is connected to an amplifier and that amplifier is turned on it is effectively connected to a short. This illustrates what damping factor is trying to do, create a very low impedance whenever there's no audio signal. The combination of low resistance speaker wire and a low impedance output stage effectively shorts out any extraneous woofer cone movement caused by the cone's inertia or external bass vibrations. In those fractions of a second where there's no audio signal coming into the woofer its voice coil is shorted out by the low impedance of the amplifier.