Stereo Splitter: Does it reduce sound quality?

I bought a stereo splitter so i can connect Speakers+ Headphones both to my laptop for DJing sessions.


But wanna know if they also split the quality?

noticed a slight drop in volume when i plugged them in.

 

There might be a loss in theory.But I don't think it would be perceivable unless you are audiophile.

 

The signal power is cut in half thus the loss of volume but I cant notice any loss in quality, however I never run both devices at once I have a port at the front for my headphones that I use when the stereo is off, and when the stero is on I unplug the headphones to prevent exactly what it is that your talking about.

If there is nowhere for the signal to go on the 2nd branch then it wont be split (aka infinite resistance)

This was only supposed to be temporary because I had planed to buy or make a toggle box to swap between devices so I could leave them plugged in, but I never found one and never made the trip to radio shack to build one so I just stuck with the splitter and its fine.

 

ya, i was also thinking of making like those splitters in Altoid casing some guy posted.

 

The place that quality will be lost is in the connection, so in theory you will lose some quality, but unless your running some pretty nice equipment then you wont notice it.

 

My connection is good, I am a "audiophile" and I ohmed it out and lost nothing so my connection is good to go