Presumably you use this adaptor to give better sound quality than via Bluetooth? Must admit that my main use of headphones (apart from Zoom sessions where I’m not wandering around) is in the workshop. I have a cheap pair of Bluetooth over-ear headphones which also act as moderate ear defenders for use when milling or similar – not good enough to use with really noisy woodworking tools. Means I can listen to the radio, though, or even hear incoming phone calls, and no trailing cable to the phone.

Might change in the future, though. I have just installed a streaming device so that my wife can hear the television directly through her hearing aids, so maybe I can listen to my own audio source through headphones when in the sitting room!

On 7 January 2024 at 18:41 jaCK Hobson Said:

I got one to use on non-apple. It gives very low level output 🙁 I think that is ‘by design’.

 

So did the one I pictured above at first. I’m using it with a set of powered earbud with their own amplifier and volume control. It was both quiet and quite muffled, so I assumed very poor quality, related to the price.
After fiddling with the connection, it suddenly started playing at full volume, and quite clear.
I’m not sure what was happening, but I suspect a dirty or misplaced contact on the sleeve, and the two earbuds were effectively in series for both channels.
It now works fine.

This is the other one, which is hopefully in the post by now

Bill

Lightning is just USB2 in a bespoke package.

Back in the iPhone 7 days, I lost count of how many times I had to fork out for these lightning to 3.5 jack adaptors for my daughter at about £19 each. They used to last a couple of months 🙁 I hope they are more reliable now, at least they are half the price.

All because Apple want to tie people into their accessories… Samsung has no problems getting a 3.5mm jack into equally thin phones.

Neil

On 7 January 2024 at 22:16 Michael Gilligan Said:

More image-posting problems, Bill

I can only see an empty frame, with the question-mark

MichaelG.

That’s interesting, I’m 100% certain it was showing after I submitted the thread, as I checked that it had come out a reasonable size and didn’t dominate too much
This was the image; I’ve no idea when it went missing, as we’ve been eating tea.

As I add this reply, the other post is still showing thus;

This is getting silly
Bill

On 7 January 2024 at 10:28 Martin King 2 Said:

Michael

A friend of mine has a Linn Sondek LP12 record deck, now about 40 years old and the sound is still astonishing through his Boothroyd Stuart Meridian speakers!

They did cost s pretty penny even back then!

My hearing is now so shot I have pretty much given up on music listening.

Cheers, Martin

Auditioned an LP12 in 1984 and felt that it rang like a bell. Got a Pink Triangle and was much happier with the sound. Horses for courses.

Paired with Monitor Audio MA2 speakers, which I’ve had since new in 1980 and I still use in the workshop driven by an Audiolab 8000A amp. 😀