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    3.5mm jack to USB?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Zagarinsky, Aug 26, 2008.

  1. Zagarinsky

    Zagarinsky Notebook Consultant

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    So I want to get a USB hub to hook up all my peripherals, and I was thinking that perhaps I could hook up my speakers as well.

    These speakers use a standard 3.5mm audio jack. So I need a 3.5mm to USB cable.

    Are there adapters for such a setup? Would they affect the sound quality?
     
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    Are you looking for an external sound card ? Or a direct 3.5mm to USB cable ?!
     
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    Direct 3.5mm to USB cable.
     
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    I don't think they exist. The USB hub/cable won't decode/encode audio signals.
    You would need to have something like this or this, and connect the 3.5mm jacks into it.
     
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    Yeah, those are fine. Not sure if that's what you meant by external sound card.

    Thanks :D
     
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    Yeah, pretty much. BTW I would adise you to go for the Griffin iMic. I've owned it for more than a year under the most 'severe' conditions, and it still works well :D (tuchwud) [+ it has good bass/treble settings :p]
     
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