(click thumbnail)Here starts my 60th column for Radio World. I have been writing about wire and cable on and off for eight years now. Occasionally, a reader who stops to chat at a trade show or SBE, ...

(click thumbnail)We’ve talked about how balanced lines reject noise because the two wires are as close together as possible. Besides bonding pairs, as in some UTP computer/data cables, there is ...

The first widespread users of balanced circuits were the early telephone companies. Their earliest systems had no amplifiers yet needed to deliver maximum audio power from one telephone to another up ...