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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Switchcraft now offers a stereo solution to the issue of injecting the unbalanced outputs of consumer and prosumer audio sources into pro audio sound systems. The new SC702 Series Stereo A/V Direct ...

This add-on board is designed to provide a pair of balanced audio outputs for the High-Quality Stereo DAC (Digital to Analog Converter). Two 3-pin male XLR connectors are used for the new outputs and ...

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 ...