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 ...

John Schmidt, P.E., is principal of John Schmidt Audio Video Systems Design in Hempstead, N.Y. For 36 years until retirement, he worked for ABC Television in New York as a senior audio video systems ...

Some lower cost systems make use of unbalanced mixer inputs and require simple two-conductor microphone cables with a standard mono phone connector. These types of cables are more susceptible to noise ...

Hi guys, I've got some 4 conductor microphone cable from a brand called Rapco which a friend gave me. Its this light purple colored stuff. I've also got some ends. I was going to use one pair of ...

Just out of curiosity: what kind of impedances are required for cabling of normal audio cables and cat6 patch? I'm thinking of hacking together a quad audio cable using the four conductor pairs of a ...

Recently I've done a collection of measurements and tests on interconnect cables to see what I could find that would explain the sonic differences that many people, including myself, have grown ...

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 ...