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 ...

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," ...

Austria's Pro-Ject Audio Systems has announced two two new affordable and fully balanced headphone amplifiers for home or ...

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 stereo setup assumes that the listener is physically located between the speakers, that’s how it can deliver sound equally from both sides. It’s also why the receiver has a “Balance” adjustment, so ...

If I’m doing anything where I need to hear the world around me, I tend to just keep one earbud in when I’m listening to podcasts or music. This obviously screws with the sound volume, but Macworld ...

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 ...

I’m sure I’ve said it before, Bluetooth speakers are a dime a dozen and often follow one of two designs: rectangular or cylindrical. Our Xoopar Xboy Stereo review takes a look at a pair of cute ...

So I have a set of Harmon-Kardon SoundSticks for my 1GHz PowerBook (plugged in direct, no hubs or anything). These are a USB audio device and up until now they have been working beautifully. Recently, ...