If you thought your 3.5mm headphone jack was good enough, think again.

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," ...

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 ...

In discussing the characteristics and performance of various interconnect systems; two points should be kept in mind. Balance is defined in terms of the impedance of the two signal conductors with ...

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 ...

As the intro to this particular post, I’d like to requote a portion of September’s hands-on review of Pioneer’s XDP-02U portable audio player (the bolded emphasis is mine): Both unbalanced (complete ...

The plan was the new DragonFly Copper, AudioQuest’s latest dongle DAC. German customs had other ideas, and it took its time reaching Berlin. So only four dongle DACs made the table, with the Copper ...

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 ...