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Hello, Joshua. |
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 13:44:40 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:35 PM Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > Hello, Gentoo. |
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> > I've recently found a pair of headphones with a microphone. I've no idea |
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> > where it came from, but I'd like to try it out. I've got no manual for |
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> > it. I'm not even sure it's functional. |
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> > It has a red (stereo) 3.5mm jack plug and a white (stereo) 3.5mm jack |
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> > plug. I'm assuming that one of these is for the headphones and the other |
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> > for the microphone, and that they plug into the pale green and pink jack |
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> > sockets on my PC. |
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> > But which is which? I don't want to destoy anything by connecting them |
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> > the wrong way around. |
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> > Help would be appreciated. |
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> > Thanks! |
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> > -- |
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> > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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> It shouldn't damage anything to get it backwards. It's *very* likely |
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> that one of those is mono, not stereo, on the plug, which is the quick |
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> way to find the microphone at a glance, though (unless they were just |
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> too cheap to manage 2 styles of plug in manufacturing) |
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Thanks for the tip! It turns out the white plug is for the earphones, |
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and the red one for the microphone. And yes, they were too cheap to use |
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two styles of plugs. |
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The tone quality is not all that high. Still, better to try it out |
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before throwing it away. |
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> Poison [BLX] |
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> Joshua M. Murphy |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |