Where to get a high quality 1/8" splitter for the sound card output?

[yo2tup]

1/8" male stereo to 2 1/8" females. not any of that cheap stuff from radio shack. i have the one from there, and it's crap. i need a high quality one that will have minimal degregation of sound quality.

 

[yo2tup]

bumpage

 

[Noriaki]

Radio Shack or any Electronics store, just don't get the Radio Shack brand. I use a Gold plated one I bought at Radio shack (Sony brand I think) works pretty well.

 

[Workin']

Cheap ones are just as good as expensive ones. Unless you plan to swing from it. Radio Shack brand is fine if it is less expensive. If you think short pieces of wire carrying a line-level signal of relatively narrow frequency bandwidth sound different from each other, you are deluding yourself and are a slave to marketing.

But you are free to waste your money any way you see fit.

<edited for spelling>

 

[yo2tup]

hm

 

[Noriaki]

Workin' hmm is that so? Well I bought an Aluminum Radio Shack brand one, but it didn't output the right channel (to either output) so I took it back and they replaced it with a Gold Plated Sony one...I thought I got a good deal Oh well...guess it doesn't matter then.

 

[Workin']

Noriaki - Hmmmm, left channel only to both outputs? My guess is that you accidentally bought a MONO splitter, not a stereo one. They are hard to tell apart and not always clearly marked. The fact that both outputs had only the left channel is a big clue - mini-jack mono cables ALWAYS carry only the left channel when plugged into a stereo jack. So maybe the fact it didn't work as expected is more an indictment of your shopping skills than Radio Shack cable quality Of course there is the small chance that it was defective, but I have a whole shoe box full of Radio Shack cable adapters, splitters, etc., and not a bad one among them. In over 20 years of shopping at The Shack.

 

[Noriaki]

Ooooh! You dare to insult my shopping skills :Q!!!!

Yeah actually that makes quite a bit of sense, because I just grabbed a 1 male to 2 female splitter didn't even bother to read it lol.

 

[JohnnyTT]

1 male and 2 females is a lot of fun


................sorry couldn't resist

 

[yo2tup]

hopefully you're right then, because i have the radioshack brand somewhere in my drawers that i bought 2 years ago

 

[yo2tup]

johnny t...........

 

[Erasmus-X]

I think Monster Cable might make a 2-way 1/8&quot; splitter like that, but if you're talking about a cable length that short for a small set of headphones, it's a waste of money.

 

[yo2tup]

hehe, it's not for headphones.

i want to connect klipsch promedia's to an audiophile 2496 which only has 2 channels.

 

[Suppafly]

buy a good one and if you can hear the difference keep it.. if you cant take it back and stick with the old cheap one..

 

[Workin']

If you can hear a difference between 2 pieces of 6&quot; long wire you better have your psychiatrist increase (or maybe decrease) your dosage.

<< i have the radioshack brand somewhere in my drawers that i bought 2 years ago >>

Ah, yes. Perfectly aged. Some might say Radio Shack &quot;classic&quot;

 

[Viperoni]

<< If you can hear a difference between 2 pieces of 6&quot; long wire you better have your psychiatrist increase (or maybe decrease) your dosage. >>



If you have good enough speakers/components you can.
Don't know what you don't know :Q

 

[Mears]

Dont' make me laugh with this A wire is better than B wire bologna. I guaruntee I could buy top of the line headphones and amp and not a single one of you would be able to distinguish between a high quality splitter and a low quality splitter more than 60% of the time. And you know what that is....a guess.

 

[Workin']

<< If you have good enough speakers/components you can. >>

Don't give me that BS, Viperoni. Within reasonable limits, wire is wire. There is NO scientific evidence to support that claim. But there is plenty of &quot;psuedo-science&quot; and &quot;scientific marketing&quot; that swallows up the gullible and naive. Like you, apparently. I've been around hi-end audio since 1977, and used to work for a hi-end amplifier manufacturer repairing their gear while I was in college, I think I have a pretty good handle on what's real and what's not in the hi-fi world. I guess you don't know what you don't know

But like I said in an earlier post, you are free to waste your money on whatever you like.

 

[yo2tup]

well i changed the stock wiring of my promedias to 16gauge wire, and there's a definatelya difference. others have too and agree. that's why i thought high quality and low quality speakers would be different

 

[Mears]

Yes, but did you go to 16awg again or to a thicker wire?