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   fiona (vidister@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 18:07:52 JST fiona

   wanna listen to music but all wifi speakers suck?

   try 30 to 40 meter AUX cables. plug it directly into an old janky amplifier. no balanced connections, no fancy DACs, just 30 to 40 meters of cable and a 3.5 mm TRS plug.

   you will certainly not regret having 30 to 40 meters of unbalanced analog audio laid across your whole apartment

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 19:03:28 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Dan Goodin

     @dangoodin @vidister The 3.5mm TRS plug, similarly to the 6.35mm and 2.5mm TRS plugs, is designed with special provisions for hot-plugging:

     Wheb you plug or unplug it, as the plug travels through the socket, the ground connector of the socket makes contact with the left channel and right channel contacts on the plug, creating voltage spikes that propagate to the speakers and make characteristic pops, notifying everyone that you just plugged or unplugged a cable.

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     Dan Goodin (dangoodin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 19:03:30 JST Dan Goodin

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     @vidister

     Wait, are you serious? If so what do 30-40 meter cables do that a 10 meter one doesn't? And what is special about the 3.5 mm TRS plug?

     If you were making a joke, sorry. I have a very compromised sense of humor and also know very little about sound equipment. 🤷

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 19:04:56 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Dan Goodin
     @wolf480pl @dangoodin @vidister Which is also why TRS shouldn't be used for anything else like digital links.