what igg said.
and if it's ok to quote wiki: "Speaker diaphragms have mass, and their surrounds have stiffness. Together, these form a resonant system, and the mechanical cone resonance may be excited by electrical signals (e.g., pulses) at audio frequencies. But a driver with a voice coil
is also a current generator, since it has a coil attached to the cone
and suspension, and that coil is immersed in a magnetic field. For every
motion the coil makes, it will generate a current that will be seen by
any electrically attached equipment, such as an amplifier. In fact, the
amp's output circuitry will be the main electrical load on the "voice
coil current generator". If that load has low resistance, the current
will be larger and the voice coil will be more strongly forced to
decelerate. A high damping factor (which requires low output impedance
at the amplifier output) very rapidly damps unwanted cone movements
induced by the mechanical resonance of the speaker, acting as the
equivalent of a "brake" on the voice coil motion (just as a short
circuit across the terminals of a rotary electrical generator will make
it very hard to turn). It is generally (though not universally) thought
that tighter control of voice coil motion is desirable, as it is
believed to contribute to better-quality sound."