Back in my college days when PortaPaks were all the rage, one of the most helpful and practical resources I relied on was the "The Spaghetti City Video Manual: A Guide to Use, Repair and Maintenance," ...

Balanced (differential) audio is carried as a differential signal on two wires, with no ground reference. This offers high common mode noise rejection. Unbalanced (single ended) signals are carried by ...

A few summers of my misspent youth found me working at an outdoor concert venue on the local crew. The local crew helps the show’s technicians — don’t call them roadies; they hate that — put up the ...

According to AES standards, the AES3 professional digital audio format can have two different kinds of electrical-physical connections. One is balanced 110 ohm using shielded twisted pair cable with ...

I'm researching preamp-amp matches and due to lack of information on the Internet am left with a question regarding output/input differences between balanced and unbalanced feeds. The contemplated ...

If you work in the professional audio field, you need to use balanced lines for long signal runs to prevent hum and noise pick-up. This Balanced/Unbalanced Converter is really two projects in one. It ...

The purpose of a balanced audio interface is to efficiently transfer signal voltage from driver to receiver while rejecting ground noise. Used with suitable cables, the interface can also reject ...

Hardcore audiophiles are generally immune to sticker shock for high-end audio gear like $50,000 speaker-based rigs. But now you can get the same level of sound for a lot less if you build a sound ...

In Part 1 of this series on audio fundamentals (“Let’s Talk About Some Basics of Audio for Radio”), we discussed audio problems and how to handle audio transformers. Most of today’s studios don’t need ...