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 ...

Balanced interfaces are ubiquitous in professional audio systems due to their ability to reject common-mode hum and noise. They are especially important in long-distance connections where each end has ...

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 ...

If you see a problem in the digital audio eye pattern, one thing to investigate is the interconnect cable. Are you using ordinary audio cable? For digital audio, regular analog audio cable doesn't go ...

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Philips offers some good quality and technologically advanced headphones in varying budgets, from affordable to high end. Explore some of the best Philips headphones here, some with active noise ...

There is no shortage of over-the-ear headphones, with manufacturers ranging from Bose to Bang & Olufsen and even Sony flooding the market with models. So where does a midrange brand like Plantronics ...

I need either a PCI-E sound card, or a USB (or even FireWire... I still like FireWire) audio interface, that has the following features: - presents itself to Windows as having a typical set of ...