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Originally Posted by spacemanspliff /img/forum/go_quote.gif Um they both are horrible? If you need such a device: Mapleshade Audio Products - Purist Mini-To-RCA Adapter |
Originally Posted by MaZa /img/forum/go_quote.gif Its not like such splitters/adapters are rocket science. To OP, any decently made one should do. Basic principle isnt any different from 3,5->6,3mm jack adapters, shape is just different. *edit* Whoa, I take it back. What OP is asking is a cable that splits a headphone jack to two so you can plug two headphones in one device? I have no idea how this affects soundquality, but I dont know if the cable even matters considerably. I wonder how the amplifier reacts and if sound quality decreases. |
Originally Posted by CDBacklash /img/forum/go_quote.gif one on the left splits the signal (i am guessing) into two inferior digital stereo signals (although it may be splitting them to two mono signals depending on what it actually is). The 3.5 to 2xRCA is splitting a stereo signal into two mono signals. there wotn be "any" difference in quality. |
Originally Posted by MaZa /img/forum/go_quote.gif Its not like such splitters/adapters are rocket science. To OP, any decently made one should do. Basic principle isnt any different from 3,5->6,3mm jack adapters, shape is just different. *edit* Whoa, I take it back. What OP is asking is a cable that splits a headphone jack to two so you can plug two headphones in one device? I have no idea how this affects soundquality, but I dont know if the cable even matters considerably. I wonder how the amplifier reacts and if sound quality decreases. |
Originally Posted by argh /img/forum/go_quote.gif Maza is right, this is about 3.5mm connections only (not RCA). |
Originally Posted by Alydon /img/forum/go_quote.gif To the OP, looking at the pics you attached, it's not so much which design is chosen as the quality of the materials used. An adapter of either "style" from, say, Radioshack, will degrade the sound quality slightly, but you'd need good ears and pretty resolving equipment to hear the difference as IME the affect on sound quality is quite minor. For most mid-fi applications tho RS gold adapters are fine. I'm really curious about that Mapleshade adapter, tho of course that one is a mini-to-RCA adapter so wouldn't suit your needs. Audioquest makes a pretty decent one for about $12 though, available here. Notice it's a slightly different design than the ones you asked about. Same end result tho. |
Originally Posted by obobskivich /img/forum/go_quote.gif two words for ya champ: prove it. |
Originally Posted by Alydon /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why must you always be so argumentative? Like all the other times you've been like this to me, I give you the same answer: I use my ears. When I listen to my headphone w/ a radioshck splitter in the loop, the sound quality is degraded slightly compared to what I hear when I remove the splitter or use the audioquest splitter that I linked above. The OP is asking for our opinions/experience. No "proving" is necessary. And I shouldn't have lead readers of this forum by the hand and say "in my experience" or "from what my ears tell me" in every single post. Most people are smart enoughto know that it is implied on opinion questions like this. Except for you, apparently. |
Originally Posted by obobskivich /img/forum/go_quote.gif ...and if you're going to claim "higher quality cable will make it better SQ all the time forever I am right everyone who doesn't agree is wrong I win", prove it. until then, there is no difference in SQ |
Originally Posted by FallenAngel /img/forum/go_quote.gif Some of us are in the camp that claim "I've proven to myself that higher quality cables will sound better and if you disagree, feel free to try to prove to me I'm either delusional or I'm lying to myself and others". |
Personally, I would go with the tiny adapter every time - they are usually a single solid piece of gold plated brass ("copper alloy" or another name for copper with impurities) and I think that's better than a gold plated brass mini plug, soldered to a wire, a length of wire and then another solder joint to a gold plated brass female mini jack. |