3.5mm female to dual 3.5mm male cable? (1 input into 2 output)

K4Y84

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Hi guys,

I have a 6' aux male/male cable running from my laptop into the aux port on my desktop speakers, I also some times move this aux cable over to the aux input in my gaming headset's DAC.

Is there a 3.5mm female to 2 male adapter I can attach to the end of my existing cable, so that the laptop output is being fed to both the speakers and headset at the same time? I suppose a 6' cable that had 2 male on one end and 1 male on the other end would also do. I don't plan to listen to both at the same time, but want to take away the need to physically unplug and move the aux cable every time I want to switch devices.

I tried looking around online but I'm seeing loads of headset/mic splitters, which is not what I am after.

Not an audio guy so excuse my ignorance.
 
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4K8KW10 said:
Hi,

Like this:


https://www.google.com/search?q=3.5...ECBQQAw&biw=1536&bih=763#imgrc=74I_V5PZRY8HgM
Click to expand...

I would be dubious about that working correctly for the OP's application. Aside from the sex of the connectors, if you have a look at the jack ends you'll see one is labelled for headphones but the other for mic. They both have standard T R S (tip, ring, sleeve) 3-pole jacks. The plug that would fit the socket you see in the picture wouldn't be T R S. It would be T R R S; 4 connections rather than three. It's more than likely you'd lose a channel.

There's also the chance of hum getting back in to the system when one sink device interacts with the other because they're not isolated from each other. It's pot luck whether a properly wired passive splitter cable would work right if it doesn't include isolation.

The correct sort of product is this
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1rUmgbsTxK1Rjy0Fgq6yovpXaI.jpg
 
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