How do stereo headphones take an output that appears to have two contacts and split it into two channels?
They have three conductors, connected to either a 1/4" phone or 1/8" mini-phone connector. Shell is the common ground, ring is right-channel audio and tip is left-channel audio.
Huh!
I’m a moron, I guess I shoulda looked a little closer.
Thanks.
Hi Shepherd Wong:
If you want to convert MONO to true stereo on your computer, you can use a good program like Sound Forge 5 which delays the right speaker just a bit for perfect stereo.
You can find that on Shareaza.
Hope This Helps !
David
This is not anything like true stereo. Filling out a mono soundtrack by delaying one side (it’s actually much more complicated than that. For more information read this, which contains a description of the process.) might give you some decent depth, but it will never approach the quality of a true stereo recording.
I recall reading someplace that GB used that technique in/around WWII on… spy recordings? I forget. By using two tape heads, the slight delay & fake stereo effect apparently helped word recognition.
Plus, if there’s a full orchestra and it’s recorded with (for example) strings on the right and brass on the left, you won’t get that in a mono recording. And a simple delay can’t separate the two.