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 ...

iOS and Android let you adjust the left-right balance among other audio settings for those with hearing impairments or those who frequently listen with only one headphone. Matt Elliott is a senior ...

A developer has highlighted how Mac still has an audio balance bug that may have been around for 22 years and the days of the PowerBook G3. The bug concerns how the left/right stereo balance can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Crouse writes in about audio balance: I have hearing loss in my right ear. If I turn up the volume to hear in my right ear, the left ear is dangerously loud. Apple has offered a left/right ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...