I want to find a vendor/mfgr of high quality
audio adapters. Right now I need 2 1/8" plugs
to a stereo 1/4". The Radioshack adapter, (hey,
I'm not in the business) had no 'tension'. The
jacks (the holes) accepting the 1/8" plugs looses
contact with the slightest application of sideways force
applied to the 1/8" plug. It finally "cold worked"
and will not make contact at all.

Who does make high quality stuff. I'm willing to
pay for professional grade adapters.

Thanks

"werwer" wrote ...
I want to find a vendor/mfgr of high quality
audio adapters. Right now I need 2 1/8" plugs
to a stereo 1/4". The Radioshack adapter, (hey,
I'm not in the business) had no 'tension'. The
jacks (the holes) accepting the 1/8" plugs looses
contact with the slightest application of sideways force
applied to the 1/8" plug. It finally "cold worked"
and will not make contact at all.

Who does make high quality stuff. I'm willing to
pay for professional grade adapters.

If the female (receptacle) 1/8 inch connectors are
flaky, solid gold male connectors won't solve your
problem. You don't need "HIGH quality" connectors,
you just need conventionally reliable ones.

In article . com,
werwer wrote:
I want to find a vendor/mfgr of high quality
audio adapters. Right now I need 2 1/8" plugs
to a stereo 1/4". The Radioshack adapter, (hey,
I'm not in the business) had no 'tension'. The
jacks (the holes) accepting the 1/8" plugs looses
contact with the slightest application of sideways force
applied to the 1/8" plug. It finally "cold worked"
and will not make contact at all.

Who does make high quality stuff. I'm willing to
pay for professional grade adapters.

Markertek Video Supply.
Call them up. Tell them you want them to make a custom Y-cable
with Switchcraft parts. They'll do it.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Get yourself a (huge) Allied Radio catalog and look up the parts you
want. I seldom order anything from Allied because their prices are too
high (they cater to prototypers who aren't concerned about unit cost).
I look up the parts I want in the Allied catalog and then buy the part
from my local electronics emporium.

In article . com writes:

I want to find a vendor/mfgr of high quality
audio adapters. Right now I need 2 1/8" plugs
to a stereo 1/4".

If you have something with 1/8" jacks, a gold adapter with titanium
wire and a diamond studded insulation jacket on the cable won't
improve your connection. Before you start talking "high quality
adapters" get rid of the equipment with the 1/8" jack. It's like
putting lipstick on a pig. Sorry, I don't mean to be personally
insulting, but that's just the way it is.

Who does make high quality stuff. I'm willing to
pay for professional grade adapters.

For people with stuff like yours, there's Monster Cable. They make
high quality parts selling for high prices, to people who have little
or no need for them.

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Quality also applies to the mechanical properties of the
base connector material concerned with tension, it's
abiltity to resist cold working, its recoil. I could care
less if it's gold. OK, where can I get 'conventional'
grade connectors of this type. Obviously the shack's
are of sub-conventional grade.
Thanks

Richard Crowley wrote:
"werwer" wrote ...
I want to find a vendor/mfgr of high quality
audio adapters. Right now I need 2 1/8" plugs
to a stereo 1/4". The Radioshack adapter, (hey,
I'm not in the business) had no 'tension'. The
jacks (the holes) accepting the 1/8" plugs looses
contact with the slightest application of sideways force
applied to the 1/8" plug. It finally "cold worked"
and will not make contact at all.

Who does make high quality stuff. I'm willing to
pay for professional grade adapters.

If the female (receptacle) 1/8 inch connectors are
flaky, solid gold male connectors won't solve your
problem. You don't need "HIGH quality" connectors,
you just need conventionally reliable ones.

Sorry, I have small binaural mics. I'm not cutting off the 1/8 plugs
for this
occational use.

So, anybody. Name? Catalog? I'll try monster but I doubt they'll
have anything better than Radioshack.

Just went to Monster's homepage. I couldn't find anything.
Did I miss the part?
Next suggestion - or joke - or insult - you choose.
Thanks

Looks like I'll do it myself. I'll get the Digikey catalog out.
I'm familar with AMP. Thanks. Surprised that
everyone didn't come back immediatly with a brand.
Is 1/8 so 'out' in pro land?
Thanks again.

werwer wrote:
Sorry, I have small binaural mics. I'm not cutting off the 1/8 plugs
for this
occational use.

Why not? 1/8" plugs are just a horrible disaster under the best of
circumstances.

So, anybody. Name? Catalog? I'll try monster but I doubt they'll
have anything better than Radioshack.

Switchcraft and Neutrik both make some, and Mouser Electronics will carry
both. So will Markertek. But don't expect any sort of reliability out
of any 1/8" phone plug or jack.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article .com,
werwer wrote:
Looks like I'll do it myself. I'll get the Digikey catalog out.
I'm familar with AMP. Thanks. Surprised that
everyone didn't come back immediatly with a brand.
Is 1/8 so 'out' in pro land?

1/8" is so out that it's in the "don't bring that crap onto my set"
range. I do not know of any flakier and more horribly-designed connector
in any use today. It's even worse than the RCA.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Yeah, 1/8" connectors are not really very common in "pro" studios.
Using a 1/8" to 1/4" (stereo or otherwise) is also not common in "pro"
studios. "Pro" studios usually have everything wired to XLRs and
adapters that go to XLRs as the universal interface (bantam-XLR,
TRS-XLR, XLR splits, etc.). And "pro" studios usually build stuff in
house anyway from raw connectors, usually Neutriks.

I use Radio Shack stuff all the time around the house and it seems to
work fine. Otherwise, I'll just build it myself.

Cheers,
Trevor de Clercq

werwer wrote:
Looks like I'll do it myself. I'll get the Digikey catalog out.
I'm familar with AMP. Thanks. Surprised that
everyone didn't come back immediatly with a brand.
Is 1/8 so 'out' in pro land?
Thanks again.

werwer wrote:
Sorry, I have small binaural mics. I'm not cutting off the 1/8 plugs
for this occational use.

They are mono 1/8" plugs or stereo? Does the 1/4" input provide plug in
power for the mics?

More info needed...

"werwer" wrote ...
I want to find a vendor/mfgr of high quality
audio adapters. Right now I need 2 1/8" plugs
to a stereo 1/4". The Radioshack adapter, (hey,
I'm not in the business) had no 'tension'. The
jacks (the holes) accepting the 1/8" plugs looses
contact with the slightest application of sideways force
applied to the 1/8" plug. It finally "cold worked"
and will not make contact at all.

Not clear what you are asking for here.
You have two mics with 1/8" mini-phone male plugs
that you need to adapt to a 1/4" stereo phone plug?
So you need two female 1/8" (mono?) mini-phone
jacks?

If the flaky 1/8" mini-phone jacks (female recpetacles)
are *in the equipment*, you've got a problem that only
repairing the equipment will solve.

The 1/8" mini-phone, cable-end jacks (female receptacles)
from most consumer sources (like particularly Radio Shack)
are REALLY JUNKY. The spring contact for the center (tip)
appears to be made out of ordinary sheet metal (likely
whatever is cheap that week). Good connectors (like
Switchcraft, etc.) use spring-grade metal (frequently
phosphor-bronze, etc.)

These things are to be avoided at almost any cost. I
always chop them off and replace with a more reliable
connector wherever possible But again we don't know
which gender you are talking about for your existing
equipment vs. what you need for your adapter?

1/8" mini-phone jacks (even "good" ones like Switchcraft)
are sufficiently unreliable that they are rarely/never used in
professional equipment. The only widespred exception being
headphone jacks because of the pervasive distribution of
"Walkman"/MP3 player-like headphones, etc.

One company (www.beachtek.com) has built up a whole
market around adapting flaky 1/8" mini-phone devices to
use more conventional/reliable XLR connectors. But even
there the weak point is the 1/8" mini-phone plug. We have
one of these at the office and I am replacing the plug/cable
for the second time in a year.

In article . com writes:

Sorry, I have small binaural mics. I'm not cutting off the 1/8 plugs
for this
occational use.

So you have these plugs and you want to plug them into 1/4" jacks?

Scott read you the riot act so I won't repeat it. There simply is no
good 1/8" jack so you might as well just go to Radio Shack for your
adapter and be done with it.

But be sure you know what you need and get what you need. Mono to
mono? two mono to one stereo? One stereo to two monos? Stereo to
stereo?

I mentioned Monster because they have a lot of cables and it wasn't
clear what you were looking for. Good thing you didn't find it. You
might have bought it.



--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

On 16 Mar 2005 09:10:36 -0800, werwer wrote:

Sorry, I have small binaural mics. I'm not cutting off the 1/8 plugs
for this
occational use.

The best quality adaptors I've seen have been the ones that come with
Sennheiser or Beyer headphones. I'd go along with others here and suggest
that you swap your existing connectors for something like the miniature
Lemo's that you'll find on many radio mics these days. They're much better
connectors and cost amazingly little for something that well designed.

Cheers.

James.

By 1/8" do you actually mean 3.5mm connectors, in either 2-pole mono or
3-pole stereo? There used to be some tiny 2.5mm mono connectors, too.
Be careful not to insert an in-line adaptor into a frail 3.5 chassis socket
because of the combined weight of the adaptor, the1/4" plug and its lead!