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 ...

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 ...

When you plug a guitar into a stage monitor, toss a CD player into your headphones, or hook up a microphone for an informal livestream, chances are you’re dealing with an unbalanced connection. Unlike ...

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 ...