If you see a problem in the digital audio eye pattern, one thing to investigate is the interconnect cable. Are you using ordinary audio cable? For digital audio, regular analog audio cable doesn't go ...

When using accelerometers with long cables, you must be careful that the cables do not attenuate the signals at high frequencies. Engineers at PCB Piezotronics point out that such attenuation may ...

At audio frequencies capacitance is not a factor at all for the cables your describe. These values are miniscule and are totally swamped by the input impedance of the audio amplifier.

(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, ...