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 ...

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 ...

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The single op-amp differential amplifier shown in Figure 1 is often used as an audio balanced line receiver. Obtaining high common-mode rejection is a critical requirement that requires four ...

At $1,999, Orchard Audio Valencia is a balanced desktop power amplifier designed for headphones, but powerful enough for speakers. Having just driven past an orange grove in Florida earlier this week, ...

The Edifier W820NB are an affordable pair of headphones. Let’s see if they’re still worth your money. There are the cheap store-helf headphones that you get just to funnel sound into your ears. There ...

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 ...