As you can see, there are a number of variables and the answer is simply not that straight forward. When conducting amplifier measurements, we tend to be a bit more forgiving with receivers than multi ...

This material originally appeared as one long article in Linear Audio Volume 2, published in September 2011. Linear Audio is a book-format audio magazine published half-yearly by Jan Didden. These ...

Ty Pendlebury is CNET's senior editor for TV and home audio, and author of the daily Insider newsletter. He has rigorously tested, reviewed and written about AV equipment for the company since 2006.

In the radio-frequency (RF) microwave test and measurement world, engineers often deal with the power measurement unit of dBm instead of wattage (W). However, when entering the audio measurement arena ...

The unbridled development of radio broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s demonstrated the need to standardize audio equipment, studio-to-transmitter links, and methods for measuring static and dynamic ...

When shopping for loudspeakers or headphones, most consumers don’t even look at the impedance of the products they are considering. Do they need to? What is Impedance? Glad you asked. Most consumers ...

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 ...