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Default Convention for naming for audio adaptors and leads



Serge Auckland wrote:

"David Nebenzahl" wrote
On 3/24/2009 1:21 PM Eeyore spake thus:

Standard nomeclature for the same connector, In the USA and probably
Canada, an RCA jack, in the UK and affiliated countries a Phono plug,
in mainland Europe a Cinch connector.


No; jack is female, plug is male. So either a RCA plug or a phono plug.
Please don't let's further confuse gender here.


So a 1/4" Jack is female? Funny ladies you've known........


Entirely possible. I got a pop-up on some web page to a 'ladyboy' site. You
would never have told they were male with their clothes on, some looked very
attractive in fact.

Graham