Common types of audio cables and their uses. Analog Balanced / Unbalanced & Digital
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A bite-sized animation showing the most common types of audio cables. We'll explain both balanced and unbalanced analog connectors, as well as digital connectors.
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Thank you for the nice comment! 🙌
@@arbitersofsound Honestly if you keep the quality up, you'll get known and eventually will be the source for educational videos on this topic.
Well the plan is to keep going and hopefully get even better so hope you're right! Thanks again for your support 🙌
Your channel for audio is like Apalapse's for photography. Perfect explanations with simple, understandable illustrations.
Thanks man, much appreciated! 🙌
Loving these videos
Sir, Please try to make a video on AES/EBU, AES50 & MADI.... The way you explain is very easy to understand.... Thank You So Much🙂
I play with old amps, turntables, reel to reel, etc and a lot of them have DIN connectors in several variants. Most have 5pin crown DIN where middle is ground and two leftmost are signal. On a vintage EQ has the input and output on same 5pin DIN plug, where two leftmost are inputs middle is ground and two rightmost are outputs from EQ. Then there is the centered rose pattern of 5pin DIN for headphones.. no luck finding a suitable connector.. i've 3dprinted a center section of a normal 5pin crown DIN, and reused the housing and metal parts, and glued the pins in the 3dprinted center part that makes the pattern.
Also on digital conector there are also those funky combo 3.5mm jack with optical reader in the back. There are optical cables with the head shaped like the 3.5mm jack but lights at the end and has optical fiber. (usually a normal TRS 3.5mm jack is wired as well.. the optical version just has a plastic spade looking like a normal jack not making electrical contact.)
You're right, I've seen the DIN connectors on old stuff and I've had to rewire some DIN cables to work with XLR and TRS cables on an old German Grundig tape machine from the 60s. That's probably a very deep rabbit-hole.....
As for the optical thing, I'm really curious about the cables you've mentioned. Got any photos/links?
@@arbitersofsound I don't have uploaded any pictures. What i'm reffering to is the DIN connector - wikipedia has a lot of info about it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_connector
And for the weird opitical combo-jack it's called mini-toslink. It's pretty rare to find a combo jack-minitoslink but apparently some old ipods had it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK
I wasn't aware of DB25s being used like that.
This is a great channel. You got a new sub. ;-)
Is there a way to tell the difference between balanced trs and unbalanced trs cable just by looking at them?
the cable is the same,
you can use it for either a mono balanced signal (eg to connect a synth to an audio interface)
or a stereo but unbalanced signal (eg to connect your phone to a portable speaker)
what are you trying to connect?
Missing AES3 or AES/EBU in this video
What about USB? My headphone amp has both USB, coax and optical connections
I wouldn't consider USB an audio connection though. Your amp probably includes a decoder that can read certain types of audio files (such as wav or mp3) and then a D/A that can convert them to an analog audio signal.
I have an old logitech twin desktop speaker with bass with both single 3.5 input and a dual aux input. Can I plug my projector into the 3.5 input for sound, and have my desktop computer plugged into the dual aux, (to use separately) without their being any complications? Thank you.
Apologies, when I say “dual aux” I mean RCA connector.
If there is no switch to select between the inputs, either one will override the other or they will both go to the amp at the same time. If you are not running them at the same time that shouldnt be a problem so it might be kind of a hack for your situation.
@@arbitersofsound Thank you so much for your experienced and quick response. Cheers!
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