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," ...

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 ...

XLR is three pronged and eliminates some of the buzzing of RCA, that's all I know, although I'm interested in the topic.

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 ...

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 ...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread here - but did this work? I'm going down a similar road - unbalanced RCA outs to balanced XLR inputs on Genelec monitors - and it'd be great not to have get additional ...

Our recent contribution to the Workbench column in Radio World about our home-brew construction of an XLR-3 cable tester produced a notable, positive reader reaction. It seems almost all of us in the ...