Saturday, February 11, 2012

TRS connector

A TRS adapter (tip, ring, sleeve) is a accepted ancestors of adapter about acclimated for analog signals including audio. It is annular in shape, about with three contacts, although sometimes with two (a TS connector) or four (a TRRS connector). It is aswell termed an audio jack, buzz jack, buzz plug, and jack plug. Specific models are termed stereo plug, mini-jack, mini-stereo, headphone jack, tiny blast adapter and diminutive plug.

The TRS adapter was invented for use in blast switchboards in the 20th aeon and is still broadly used, both in its aboriginal 1⁄4 in (exactly 6.35 mm) admeasurement and in miniaturized versions: 3.5 mm (approx. 1⁄8 in) and 2.5 mm (approx. 3⁄32 in). The connector's name is an abridgement acquired from the names of three administering locations of the plug: Tip, Ring, and Sleeve1 – hence, TRS.

In the UK, the agreement jack bung and jack atrium are frequently acclimated for the agnate macho and changeable TRS connectors.2

In the US, a anchored (more fixed) adapter is termed a jack.34 The agreement buzz bung and buzz jack are sometimes acclimated to accredit to TRS connectors,5 but are aswell sometimes acclimated colloquially to accredit to RJ11 and earlier blast plugs and the agnate jacks that affix active telephones to bank outlets (the agnate agreement phono bung and phono jack accredit to RCA connectors admitting both bung types are acclimated in bike if a computer or MP3 amateur connects to a stereo). In conversation, the bore is generally added to specify which size: quarter-inch buzz bung or 3.5 mm buzz jack for the asymmetric two-channel three-contact version, and counterbalanced TRS jack or TRS buzz bung for the counterbalanced one-channel three-contact version.

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