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Time Changes Everything
Technology is like energy, it can’t be created or destroyed, only changed
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You’ll Get Caught Up in This Cable
What happened when the author participated in a blind test of various speaker cables
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Dear Internet: Please Talk to Me
We’re beginning, just beginning, to understand a universe in which we actually sense very,...
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Steve Lampen Sings a Hymn to Junk
Thank goodness for those purveyors of old bits and parts
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Working With Class 1 Speaker Cable
Have you looked at your cable? Is it the appropriate class?
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So, How Much Air Would You Like?
The highest quality cable manufacturers sell you air. Why? It all comes down to...
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Touch a Supernova
Thanks to a Star That Lived and Died Violently Billions of Years Ago, You...
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Caveat Emptor Is Always Good Advice
There are really two kinds of audio and video cable at these shows. One...
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You and the Search for ‘E’
So how can you tell if a particular manufacturer is a hole-in-the-wall or a...
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On the Street Where You Live
I have a great idea. And this idea, as most great ideas, comes from...
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Power Cords … With a Guitar
Power cords are ubiquitous, so even if a guitar doesn’t don’t have one, a...
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Heyyyy, More Power to Ya!
Of course, I won’t mention that 99.99 percent of the cable before that power...
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Get to Know Coax Snake Cable
You say you never heard of coax snake? Yes you have. You might even...
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How to Gauge a Snake
When selecting analog snake cable, you usually have three gauge sizes from which to...
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Spills and Chills, On the Air
In an earlier column on the history of wire, I mentioned ancient batteries that...
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Get Wise to the Ways of Plenum
You know about plenum cables; in many installs, they are now required. But do...
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A Vacuum-Filled Brain
In the March 29 issue we talked a bit about those high-end "home theater"...
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Do You Need Bigger Conductors?
Oh, I'm sorry, they're not hi-fi stores anymore. They're "Home Theater Specialists" or "Entertainment...
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About Those ‘Other’ Cables
Remember the old days? When you hooked up your audio with a shielded twisted...
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A Star Glimmers in the Night
We've talked about how balanced lines reject noise because the two wires are as...
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Balancing Act
Balanced circuits require that the two wires must be the same length, the same...
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A Perfect Balanced Line
Here starts my 60th column for Radio World. I have been writing about wire...
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I’ll Take Differential for $5, Alex
I always like $5 terms. You can use these terms to browbeat unruly customers...
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Some Basic Wire & Cable Terminology
In reviewing my collection of Radio World columns, it occurs to me that although...
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Is There an Ideal Impedance?
We left our story about the history of wire and cable (RW, Sept. 1)...
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Bell Labs and Coaxial Cable
Gather 'round, children. I know it's way past your bedtime, but Grandpa Steve is...
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Radio Pioneers Enter Story of Wire
Let us continue our story of the history of wire, which we began in...
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Voice Over Wire: Imagine That
Come gather 'round, little ones, as Old Mr. Steve blathers on about the history...
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The Development of Wire Gages
Where did the idea of wire sizes come from? Even ancient wire came in...
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Up for a Quick Game of Ttlachtli?
Come, children, and sit as Grandpa Lampen continues his story of wire, which we...
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Brunel’s Ship Makes Cable History
We left our last installment talking about Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the obsessed mad genius.
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Pop Goes the Cable: More History
Over the last few months, most recently in the Oct. 23 issue, we've been...
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The History of Wire and Cable
Gather 'round, boys and girls, as Grandpa Lampen continues his journey through the history...
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Dipping Into the History of Wire
We left our Sept. 1 column talking about VGA (video graphics), S-VGA (super video...
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From Regular to Super Graphics
We left our July 3 column talking about VGA (video graphics) cables and RGB...
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USB & FireWire, Fired Up for Data
Both of these trademarked protocols use "plug-and-play" architecture - you can attach or disconnect...
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Data Cables, Moving Audio Around
We left the subject of "category" cables in the April 24 issue, talking about...
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Is This Cat Really a Dog?
So we arrive at the emerging Cat-6...As of this writing, the TIA/EIA 568 committee...
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Are You a Data Commander?
Today’s headline recalls Commander Data, the android on the TV series "Star Trek: The...
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Speaking of Speaker Cable
We’ve been talking about speaker cable and have covered resistance and capacitance in past...