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    Headsets compatible with the Vaio Z22's TRRRS headphone socket?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by TBBle, May 22, 2012.

  1. TBBle

    TBBle Newbie

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    I've been looking around, trying to find out if there's any such thing as a headset (i.e. earphones + mouth-directed microphone, for voice chat) that will fit the TRRRS headphone/microphone socket on the side of the Sony Z22.

    The short motivation is that my boss complains that the noise-cancelling headphone's microphone picks up too much surround noise when we use it for voice-chat, so I need something directional and I'm trying to avoid giving up one of my precious USB slots.

    I'm _guessing_ that the extra ring is because there's left-and-right microphone channels (for beam-forming), so I'd be satisfied if anyone could recommend a headset that will ignore one of the microphone channels, assuming the driver won't get confused by that.
     
    TBBle, May 22, 2012
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    I'm looking for something like this too. I bought a "Headset Buddy" splitter, but it only handles TRRS plugs. I can find absolutely nothing online that handles TRRRS plugs... there are just some headsets that take it (like ones from Sony), but no splitters.

    Perhaps TRRRS plugs are almost always proprietary (that extra ring is used for something that nobody can determine ahead of time), so nobody knows what to route it to (or which ring to leave out) in the cable's wiring?

    - Tim
     
    tbessie, Aug 1, 2012
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