Benchmark's "Clean Audio Installation Guide™"
By Allen H. Burdick
"Required Reading!"
This 24 page guide has been very popular. It has been hailed as “required reading for all broadcast engineers” by Richard Sequerra.
“We were able to change our engineering standards throughout the CBC as a result of this paper.” - Tom Holden Manager, Systems Engineering - Radio, CBC Toronto.
This paper revolutionized broadcast audio in the 1980's. It moved the industry away from 600-Ohm interfaces and radically changed the way analog audio was handled in professional environments.
In many ways, this paper still impacts every product that Benchmark builds today. We think that you will find this classic paper as useful today as it was when it was originally published in the 1980's. Due to the popularity of this paper, Allen updated it several times. The links will take you to Allen's final 1997 version.
We agree with Richard Sequerra. This is your required reading assignment!
