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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...