Questions tagged [trs]
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TRS differential input and output connector wiring for balanced audio CODEC I/O connections
I've been studying the ADAU1361 evaluation board and noticed an odd thing how the differential input and output connectors are connected in their schematic on its user guide, page 7, focus on the left ...
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How should I wire a passive audio splitter for studio monitors?
I am building a passive audio splitter that takes in two balanced mono signals (on TRS) from an audio interface and then it should be able to switch the routing of the signal using a DPDT switch.
I ...
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TRRS headphone and mic swapper
I'd like to create a serial cable link library between two devices called Playdates. They have a TRRS audio jack, and my idea is to use a few cables as shown below to connect each Playdate's audio out ...
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Use TRS jack as Mono + 5V power input
I'm trying to change this guitar wireless transmitter so that the audio input jack also becomes a charging/power source.
The charger will be a separate box with "stereo" input socket.
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TRS to USB microphone wiring
I am trying to use a microphone pulled out from an old video recorder. I can use a TRS connector and plug it into the AV - mic in jack. I am curious if there is a way to use USB - A interface.
In ...
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Outputting a 1/4 inch TRS male plug from a PCB
I am designing a small PCB that I need to plug into a 1/4" TRS receptacle. The overall setup can either be something like a small dongle (i.e. attaching a male TRS directly to the PCB somehow,) ...
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Telephone headset adaptor weak microphone and speaker sound
I have made a simple adaptor for a telephone P4C4 -- RJ9 -- separate headset output (The wiring diagram of a telephone handset can be viewed in this wikipedia article) to two TRS jack for an ordinary ...
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Stereo Headphone Cabling (TRS) - Why 4 pads on L loudspeaker and 4 cables?
The R(ight) loudspeaker on my AKG-K99 headphones stopped working. I bought a replacement (x2) 'mini' loudspeaker.
After soldered the replacement the sound was "weird". No problem. I ...
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Is it possible to use a Smartphone audio jack as MIDI output?
Is it possible to use a Smartphone audio jack as MIDI output?
My plan is to use a standard TRS to MIDI cable, like the one Arturias Beatstep uses, to connect a Smartphone/Tablet to a MIDI device.
I ...
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Connection of TRRS microphone not TRRS headset
I know for headset
T- Left
R- Right
R- mic
S- Ground
But for only microphone
T - unknown ?
R - unknown ?
R - mic
S - Ground
What are those unknown?
I want to plug it to my computer which has separate ...
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How do I wire a trs jack to a dual channel amplifier?
So I have a bluetooth audio amp circuit board. I believe it is dual channel it has two chips (one for left, one for right)
The outputs are R+ R- L+ L-, but I want to wire them to a trs jack, which has ...
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Can an electrolytic capacitor withstand 0.1 V reverse polarity?
Let’s start the question with a brief description of my application.
I am trying to attach a headphone jack with a detect pin to a RDA5807 IC based FM radio project. I am using a separate ...
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Connecting cell phone and computer audio through TRS and TRRS 3.5 mm audio jacks
I am trying to connect the computer audio output to the cell phone audio input and vice versa. There are two connection designs because I need to be able to connect both to a desktop and a laptop ...
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How to connect 5 colored wire headphone to 3.5 TRS jack?
I have a somictone headphone and I want to repair its headphone jack, It contains five colored wires.
Here are the wire and TRS jack.
Please give me a feedback
Can you please tell me how to wire this?...
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How to detect if a TRS cable is connected to a MP3 player output?
Imagine I have a MP3 player and one male-to-male TRS cable that could be connected or not to ...
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Audio Jack Sleeve Switch Schematic Connections
I'm trying to understand the switch mechanism on sleeve of this jack - I can't work out what it is.
Specifically:
3 is sleeve,
4 is sleeve switch
But what is operation? Is the sleeve switch N/O ...
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±12V protection for MIDI input
TLDR; how to make a MIDI input withstand shorting to \$\pm12V\$?
This is a counterpart to this question, I'm asking this as I was inspired by the great answer I got there.
I'm designing a MIDI input ...
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±12V protection for MIDI output
TLDR; how to make a MIDI output withstand shorting it to \$\pm12\$V?
I'm designing a MIDI output in a eurorack modular synth module on a TRS jack (this is a semi-standard non-standard way to save ...
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Thread pitch on locking 1/8" audio connectors?
I feel silly that I can't find this on Google... what is the thread size on locking 1/8" audio connectors like these? There seems to be a de-facto standard, but I can't find any numbers and it's hard ...
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Why is 3.5 mm audio jack so long (about 19 mm)? [closed]
The designers of 3.5 mm audio jack made the decision to keep it's length long (about 19 mm). They could have easily gone shorter lengths. Does longer length provide some noticeable improvements?
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Why do faulty headphones make MP3s sound low bitrate when I touch the wire? [closed]
I have a pair of headphones which came with my phone. They're the standard type that comes with a mobile phone - TRSS 3.5mm jack with an inline microphone.
I was listening to Spotify on my phone. I ...
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Why would credit card reader over audio jack not work on some devices?
This isn't a troubleshooting question, it's purely to satisfy my curiosity...
MagTek makes a product called the uDynamo credit card reader that uses the audio channel on android devices as a ...
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TRS female jack symbol in Kicad
There is a device which is powered and also outputs signal by its TRS connector as shown below:
This TRS connector needs a female correspondent for my circuit.
I made a small board and need to add ...
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