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Or, 3.5mm to 3.5mm with a 1/4" adapter???
Or, 3.5mm to 3.5mm with a 1/4" adapter???
3.5mm to 1/4" cable for line out???
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Would this be correct for the 3.5mm Line-Out on my amp????
Would this be correct for the 3.5mm Line-Out on my amp????
Do you need a balanced or unbalanced cable? If you need a balanced cable, a TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) cable such as that one will work. You could get away with the same cable for an unbalanced connection, as the other conductor (the ring connection) will not be used. But, I prefer an actual TS (tip-sleeve) cable for unbalanced connections, such as this:
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Is this your 8200 head?
Okay, from the schematic I found on the 8200, it looks like the line outs are unbalanced. But, aren’t they 1/4”? I don’t see a 3.5 mm on the backplane pictures I’ve found.
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This is for the MG100HFX.
Ahhh…very good. I looked up the manual. You must mean the 3.5 mm Line IN. That’s different. Yes, the first cable you showed should work.
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Okay, I must have found a bad version of the manual. It didn‘t show that jack. But, yeah, the one you originally posted is good for that.
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There are 2X 3.5mm jacks on the HFX
Both are stereo (3 conductor) jacks.
There is a headphone line out jack 3.5 mm 3 conductor on the front panel.
There is audio line in 3.5 mm stereo 3 conductor on the rear panel.
Whether or not these jacks actually have a stereo audio path is not disclosed....
or if right and left are mixed together into a mono signal.
There is no schematic around that I can see.
But you need to connect right or left output from the 3 conductor 1/8" jack to a mono 1/4" phone plug.
Which means the 1/8" plug is a 3 conductor plug, and you are only using 2 of the 3 conductors available from the plug....to connect to a mono 1/4" plug.
You are only using 1 channel of a stereo plug, see? The other channel does not connect to anything.
No, there is no adapter cable that connects only 1 channel of a 3 conductor stereo plug to a mono 1/4" plug.
But there "is" a 1/8" stereo plug to 2X mono 1/4" plugs (it's a Y cable). Which maintains left and right into the 2 mono plugs.
so, you would only use only 1 of the 1/4" plugs of the Y cable.
But there probably is an adapter mono combiner cable that connects 3 conductor stereo 1/8" left and right together, into a mono 1/4" plug.
Most likely that is the type adapter cable you will find.
But what I'm trying to say is:
connecting left and right together may not be a good thing, if it really is a stereo headphone circuit.
It depends on the design, which we can't see.
The manual really doesn't make the distinction too clear....if headphone out is really stereo, or left right mixed combined into a mono signal.
And so
using the 3 conductor 1/8" stereo plug to 2X mono plugs 1/4" Y cable, maintains the separation of left right wiring.
Overall that is the safest way, because we don't know what the circuit inside the amp actually is.
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