3.5mm Speaker and headphone Splitter
Posted by Notcot on Mar 27, 2010 in Portable Sound & Vision |
Product Description
24K hard gold-plated connectors
High quality oxygen-free copper (OFC) multi-strand cable
Ideal for PC sound cards and personal hi-fi
Colour-coded connectors for easy identification
Pure copper braid and aluminium foil dual shielding to block RFI/EMI interference
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Well, technically it cost me £5.02 including postage. I bet this is the only thing you can order where the postage costs 500 times more than the product! It’s a good thing everything else isn’t like that!
Anyway, my review……
Not much to say really, it does what you expect it to, which is to split a stereo audio source into two stereo audio sources. As the name suggests, it has 3.5mm interface, so you can use it for headphones from, say, your mp3 player, or whateverer else you can plug it into. I’m using it for my PC audio, because I will be getting a widescreen LCD TV soon, and I want to be able to use it with my PC, with sound. This little cable will allow me to switch between my monitor and TV, and get stereo sound on either, without having to fiddle around with cables.
One other thing I noticed, is although this is meant to be black, the one I got is white. Not that this matters in the slightest, but I just thought I’d mention it.
Another thing, you have to push the connectors into the ends of this thing quite hard, until it clicks. I thought there was something wrong with it at first, because I was only getting mono sound, then I realized it needs pushing in quite hard. Remember this if you buy it.
I don’t know how something so simple deserves such a long review, so to summarise, this thing is perfect and at 1p you can’t go wrong. Buy it now!
Rating: 5 / 5
Although it costs 1p, delivery was a few pounds, its still well worth it
It does exactly what it says, it allows two audio inputs.
I use it with my PC 2.1 speakers and have my Xbox 360 and PC hooked up. Some extra bits were needed for the 360 to work with the speakers but this little item was a godsend!
It can be used as a headphone splitter as well which is a good extra feature.
The one I got was good quality and the sound was perfect for me.
For what it is I would highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this product to allow me to use my xbox through my pc speakers and monitor and its great! For 1p you’d think you cant go wrong!
But do be advised that although the product is 1p, the p&p is about £5 – you may be able to get them cheaper from a local shop? I didnt look into it, cause im lazy and paid the price. in addition, i find the ports a little stiff so to speak, in agreement with another review, meaning you do have to give it a good push to get your jack in
At the end of the day though, it does what it says, and now i can switch between xbox and 360 with ease, as well as have sound playing at the same time for both. YAY!
Rating: 4 / 5
I use it to split the audio between the external speakers on my PC and a set of head phones. It works perfectly.
Rating: 5 / 5
Enough said, really. I bought it because I was tired of fishing around the back of my PC swapping from speakers to headphones, and potentially breaking the connection through overuse, which happened to the jack on the front. It doesn’t impare the sound, or at least, I don’t notice it. And it’s small enough to fit through your letterbox, so you haven’t got to get it from the post office when they deliver it when you’re at work.
Rating: 4 / 5