Other Home Audio

Audio adaptors are useful for a variety of situations when connecting home audio equipment, recording gear or musical instrument amplifiers to other performance components. While most people buy...

The LED (light emitting diode) is a solid state light source. Although LEDs require a DC power source and cost more than fluorescent lights, LEDs have become popular because of their low...

With today's advances in electronics and communication, signals bouncing everywhere, it's no wonder your FM radio station is hard to pick up. Having the right FM antenna will make all that noise...

Pulling in that favorite FM station can seem frustrating, but with a great antenna trimmed, and tuned the headaches will soon disappear. An FM antenna will allow you to scan the airwaves for your...

Ohm's Law states Voltage = Current times Resistance (V= IR). Most circuits have a fixed input voltage, and resistors and other components break the voltage (and therefore the current) down to...

Setting up a component-based home audio system is fairly straightforward. There are a couple of tips, however, to ensure that you gain as much enjoyment as possible from your audio system. To get...

When your guitar cable, or any audio cable, creates static, it is usually a bad solder joint within the cable. I will show you how I fix Guitar cables instead of buying new ones.

Alligator clips have a variety of uses in the electronics field. This can range from science experiments and connecting batteries to connecting audio or video devices. To use an alligator clip...

Electronic audio jacks (RCA jacks) are used for low-voltage connections between audio components. A common example of an audio RCA jack is an audio output on a CD player. While durable, it's...

RCA connectors are versatile and easy to use. They are common in many electronic devices, like CD players and VCRs, and can be used for a variety of video and audio applications. The male end of...

RCA cable is the most common type of audio-video cable. This simple cable is used for a variety of audio and video equipment connections. Developed more than 70 years ago, RCA connectors are still...

You may need to wire a rheostat for your audio electronics projects, like stereo volume control and amplifiers. It's a straight-forward process, just apply the proper soldering technique used to...

When people speak generically of "audio cables" in home audio, the RCA cable springs to mind. Pairs of RCA cables generally carry stereo (right and left channel) signals from the outputs of...

Component video cables consist of three RCA cables, bundled together, and are used to attach video sources like a DVD player to video displays like a monitor or HDTV. To use component video...

Component video cables are used to send high-quality video signals from video sources, like DVD players, to video displays, such as HDTVs. A component video cable consists of three wires, each...

Video graphics array, or VGA, cables are the basic connection used to link between a component and a monitor. The computer you're using right now has its own: the cable used to link the monitor to...

The RCA connector, or plug, is an ubiquitous feature of audio systems. The RCA plug was developed by the RCA company in the 1940s to connect turntables to RCA radio sets and has since become...

The RCA connector was developed by the RCA Company in the 1940s as a way to allow turntables to be plugged into RCA radios that featured an input. The simple design and robust construction of the...

The RCA plug is one of the most common types of electronic connectors. Originally developed by the RCA company as a connector for hooking up phonographs to radio consoles, it is commonly used for...

RCA connectors, also known as RCA plugs, are used for a variety of audio applications. You'll find RCA connectors on audio and video cables that are used with a wide range home audio products,...

FM radios are still popular and widely used even in our modern Internet age. FM radios can be used to listen to radio music stations or even talk radio programs as well. You can build one of these...

RCA cables are versatile cables used for a variety of home and car audio applications. They frequently carry audio and video signals, and the design is so ubiquitous that it's a rare piece of...

An RCA cable--a length of wire with a male RCA connector at either end--usually comes premade. These cables are almost ubiquitous in home and car stereo systems. They're used for connecting audio...

Audio patch cables come in many varieties and costs from the RCS cables included with your CD player to the high dollar boutique cable. Despite what many would have you believe, it's difficult to...

You have tested everything trying to determine why your home theater suddenly has no sound. One of the first things to check is your audio cables, which wear and break over time. Rather than...

Hearing a scratchy noise while you turn up the volume of your vintage audio system? The problem is most likely caused a dirty potentiometer. A dirty potentiometer can cause problems in volume,...

Soldering is a form of welding used to secure electronic components to printed circuit boards. The process of fusing unlike metals with a third liquid metal is difficult and requires practice. ...

It's easy to make mistakes when soldering through-hole components. In order to correct them, it's best to completely remove all solder from the solder joint and start again. Desoldering can also...

Professional musicians everywhere know just how easy it is to kill an audio cable. They also know how expensive the cables are to replace and how the sound is affected with each new cable. That is...

A good set of headphones can last a lifetime, but it's unlikely that the plug at the end of the headphone cord will. If you can solder a wire, though, there's no reason you can't replace it. If...