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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...