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Aircraft Headphone Double Jack System

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Robert

Jan 1, 1970
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Could some one let me know if I am on the right track with this. From
what I can tell those double jack headphones you get on a lot of
aricraft these days has a jack for the right and left headphones
respectively correct?? If this is the case it would be quite easy to
jus connect these together on a single stereo jack correct?? Or is
there a problem with the two "grounds" on the sperate jacks?? Would be
great if someone could let me know if i am right or i am in some dream
world:p

Robert
 
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Tim Auton

Jan 1, 1970
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Could some one let me know if I am on the right track with this. From
what I can tell those double jack headphones you get on a lot of
aricraft these days has a jack for the right and left headphones
respectively correct?? If this is the case it would be quite easy to
jus connect these together on a single stereo jack correct?? Or is
there a problem with the two "grounds" on the sperate jacks?? Would be
great if someone could let me know if i am right or i am in some dream
world:p

AFAIK you're correct. The reason it's non-standard is to make you buy
headphones on the plane. Isn't capitalism brilliant?


Tim
 
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Jacobe Hazzard

Jan 1, 1970
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Tim said:
AFAIK you're correct. The reason it's non-standard is to
make you buy headphones on the plane. Isn't capitalism
brilliant?
The way it's always been for me is that the headphones are free, the double
plug is to stop you from stealing them when you leave (cause they become
useless).
Also, each one of the double jacks works fine as a stereo jack if you plug
in regular headphones, so no need to use the crappy airplane ones.

And yes you could rewire airplane headphones to use a stereo plug or use an
adapter but it's REALLY not worth it. All you need is to connect the grounds
together, and then connect the ring and tip.
 
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Spajky®

Jan 1, 1970
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Could some one let me know if I am on the right track with this. From
what I can tell those double jack headphones you get on a lot of
aricraft these days has a jack for the right and left headphones
respectively correct?? If this is the case it would be quite easy to
jus connect these together on a single stereo jack correct?? Or is
there a problem with the two "grounds" on the sperate jacks?? Would be
great if someone could let me know if i am right or i am in some dream
world:p

maybe one jack is for (mono wired) headphones & the other is for
microphone; if so, you can not wire them together
(well you can, if on the other side on pannel is the male jack also
wired (stereo?) - one plug for phones out, the other for mic.)

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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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the double plug is to stop you from stealing them when you leave
Tim Auton

I think Tim is correct.

Last time I flew they said "Keep them".

Years ago, when they rented them for $2 and were saying,
"Don't use your own headset; it might screw up our system",
I made my own adapter and used my Walkman phones.

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