Wired for Sound
You and the Search for ‘E’
8.25.2008
So how can you tell if a particular manufacturer is a hole-in-the-wall or a serious player?
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On the Street Where You Live
3.20.2008
I have a great idea. And this idea, as most great ideas, comes from frustration.
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I’m the Man Who Found the Lost Cord
9.26.2007
Of course, it should be the lost “chord” but I wrote the lost “cord,” as we’ve been talking about power cords. We’ve talked about gage size, current draw, even the melting temperature of the jacket.
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Power Cords ... With a Guitar
8.14.2007
Power cords are ubiquitous, so even if a guitar doesn’t don’t have one, a guitar amp certainly does.
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Heyyyy, More Power to Ya!
7.18.2007
Of course, I won’t mention that 99.99 percent of the cable before that power cord, the stuff between your wall and the power plant, is simple solid copper wire. No, no, that last three feet makes such a difference!
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Choose Appropriate Cables
4.30.2007
Charles "Buc" Fitch and I have been trying to coordinate our columns in
RW. He writes about the National Electrical Code, while I’m talking about wire and cable, which is supposed to meet the NEC.
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Ruminations on Digital Audio
4.30.2007
Every so often, someone sends me an e-mail or corners me at a trade show to tell me their weird story about wire. Sometimes, a certain kind of wire worked in a situation where it shouldn’t.
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Uncle Steve’s Weird Wire Stories
4.30.2007
I promised last time to talk about weird wire stories. So here goes!...Back in 1985, I was working for a small FM here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Management had finally bitten the bullet and approved a new transmitter and antenna.
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Who Put the Gory in Category?
4.30.2007
I’ve spend more than a few columns in the past extolling the virtues of Category 5 premise/data cables. And more than a few readers have taken the plunge and are using it not just as data cable but also for things like RS-422 and RS-485 machine control, digital audio or even analog audio.
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Who Put the Zip in Speaker Wire?
4.30.2007
Well, I’ve been writing this column for almost four years. You’d think I would run out of things to say about wire and cable.
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