It is interesting that audio is the exclusive field where cables have been so hotly debated. It seems to be the only field where science and engineering practices, along with common sense, are almost ...

Jeffrey Smith from SilverSmith Audio was nice enough to engage in an informative interview about his cable philosophies and self proclaimed sciences behind them. While his ideas about cables and ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—As television engineers age, those brought up in the era of analog signals and the subsequent transition to digital are retiring and talking hard-earned knowledge with them. Younger ...

A lab test comparing a $7 RCA cable with a $4,000 model found no real difference in sound quality, challenging a core audiophile belief and showing your upgrade budget is better spent elsewhere.The ...

HDMI cables might not sound as fancy as optical audio cables, but they're they're superior in every way.

A recent blind test confirms that the only thing a $4,000 boutique audio cable transmits more effectively than a $7 Amazon Basics cord is a massive amount of cash from your bank account to the ...

Can cables make an audible difference? Most definitely, but usually not for the reasons that many exotic cable vendors would have you believe. And the “difference” may or may not be a good thing. We ...

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We’ve now spent several months in this series journeying through the world of audio, and along the way we’ve looked at the various parts of a Hi-Fi system from the speaker backwards to the source.

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...