When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Back in my college days when PortaPaks were all the rage, one of the most helpful and practical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...

When it comes to wireless earbuds, the general consensus is that it's pretty hard to outdo the performance of Apple AirPods. Our review of the Apple AirPods 4 found that they delivered solid sound ...

According to MacRumors, Apple still hasn’t fixed a bug in macOS that causes the audio balance to drift on Macs under certain conditions, despite having acknowledged the issue almost 12 years ago. A ...