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How the gear works, in plain language.
Latency is a budget spent across six places, and the interface is only one of them. Where the milliseconds accumulate, why round trip is the only figure worth deciding with, what ten milliseconds f...
What +4 dBu and -10 dBV do to your gain staging, what balanced actually buys, where a ground loop comes from, and how to match the levels of two pairs of speakers.
Most of what gets heard as a preamp upgrade is the first time somebody's levels were right. Where the noise in a recording actually comes from, in order, which of those a purchase can change, and t...
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Learn explains how the gear works. The buying guides say what to buy, and name what is wrong with each pick. If you would rather settle it with your own ears, the listening room at 215 East Lewis Street in Livingston is free and by appointment.