[LAU] [ot] connecting breakout box and headphones

[James Morris]

On 22 May 2011 03:19, Reuben Martin <reuben.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> Buy a soldering iron.

I'd rather not. Especially as I already have one. A few years ago I
used the ancient (found in parents garage around twenty years ago, and
it was ancient then) beast to solder a 2.5mm stereo jack to twin 1/4"
mono jacks. The 2.5mm jack was so fiddly I had to buy extra of them
because I kept melting the plastic sleeves inside the plug itself.
When I managed not to melt anything, the lumps of solder were too big
to get the outer casing on. Eventually I do believe I got something
which worked. It lasted less than a year.

Perhaps I need a new soldering iron?

James.


>
> -Reuben
>
> On Saturday, May 21, 2011, James Morris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to connect a breakout box for use with headphones. The
>> headphones themselves have  a mini-xlr connector (for connecting the
>> cable to them) and breakout box has 1/4" mono jack outputs.
>>
>> To connect the two I currently use:
>>
>> 1) 2 x 1/4" Jack to Phono connectors
>> 2) Twin Phono to 3.5mm stereo Jack cable
>> 3) 3.5mm female to female coupler
>> 4) 3.5mm jack to mini-xlr
>>
>> Does anyone know where I could get either (delivery to UK):
>>
>> A cable to connect directly from breakout box 1/4"
>>
>> - or -
>>
>> A better (ie consisting of fewer components) configuration of cables/adapters?
>>
>> I'm thinking this can't be a uncommon scenario?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James.
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