Sound Track: A Perfect Connection

Like water flowing through proper plumbing, your audio signals need good cables and connections to carry them from place to place.

Like water flowing through proper plumbing, your audio signals need good cables and connections to carry them from place to place.

Imagine the mayhem you'd have in your home if all your plumbing was installed wrong--really wrong. Your kitchen disposal feeds the bathtub faucet, the bathroom sink drains into the washroom hot-water tap and the toilet--well, you don't really want to know what the toilet's connected to.

If you picture your audio signal as water and your audio cabling as the pipes that carry it, you'll have a better grasp on the importance of wiring your audio lines correctly. Connecting audio cables wrong will give you the electronic equivalent of a glass of murky, brown water--your audio signals will carry all kinds of unsavory pollu…

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