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 ...

Simple question I think, but I just want to make sure I'm getting the best sound quality possible... In my recording studio I have balanced outputs going to balanced powered studio monitors. I also ...

Over the past couple of years, the Canadian audio company Radial Engineering has been expanding its compact and handy StageBug series of products. The Skinny: The latest addition to Radial’s StageBug ...

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 (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 ...

People like to create social triangles with others. Red lines represent friendly and cooperative relations between individuals, blue lines are negative or hostile links. We usually cope better with ...