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On 22 May 2011 03:19, Reuben Martin  wrote:

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> Buy a soldering iron.

I'd rather not. Especially as I already have one. A few years ago I

used the ancient (found in parents garage around twenty years ago, and

it was ancient then) beast to solder a 2.5mm stereo jack to twin 1/4"

mono jacks. The 2.5mm jack was so fiddly I had to buy extra of them

because I kept melting the plastic sleeves inside the plug itself.

When I managed not to melt anything, the lumps of solder were too big

to get the outer casing on. Eventually I do believe I got something

which worked. It lasted less than a year.
Perhaps I need a new soldering iron?
James.
>

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> -Reuben

>

> On Saturday, May 21, 2011, James Morris wrote:

>> Hi,

>>

>> I want to connect a breakout box for use with headphones. The

>> headphones themselves have  a mini-xlr connector (for connecting the

>> cable to them) and breakout box has 1/4" mono jack outputs.

>>

>> To connect the two I currently use:

>>

>> 1) 2 x 1/4" Jack to Phono connectors

>> 2) Twin Phono to 3.5mm stereo Jack cable

>> 3) 3.5mm female to female coupler

>> 4) 3.5mm jack to mini-xlr

>>

>> Does anyone know where I could get either (delivery to UK):

>>

>> A cable to connect directly from breakout box 1/4"

>>

>> - or -

>>

>> A better (ie consisting of fewer components) configuration of cables/adapters?

>>

>> I'm thinking this can't be a uncommon scenario?

>>

>> Cheers,

>> James.

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