I’m looking for a very short length (inches not feet) male/male 3.5mm audio cable. In fact I don’t even need the cable at all. Is there such a thing as two male jacks connected directly to each other?
sure.
Those are RCA plugs, squeegee.
Here in stereo. They also have mono.
It’s going to tough to find one that short. I don’t recall ever seeing one under about 2 feet. If you can’t find one, I can make you one for the price of parts. I’ve seen two-packs of nickel-plated brass plugs for a couple bucks; I can just braze them together back-to-back with internal connections already wired up.
Thanks guys. carnivorousplant, that website wasdamn near indecipherable to me, but looks like it will be very useful if I can manage to figure it out.
shoot. sorry.
Radioshack may have this, though their website sucks enough that it’s hard to tell. They seem to carry more bitty parts in their stores than the site shows.
You set a filter, clicking on what you want. I selected 3.5mm male stereo at each end.
They are all way to long, Q.E.D. is correct. Go to Radio Shack and tell the guy what you want.
I do have a male-male stereo cable that is about three inches long. However, I got it in the package when I bought my TV card for my computer. (The audio is provided by the line-out from the TV card going into the line-in on the sound card.) So they must make them, but I don’t know where the average consumer could find one.
I agree that a male-male coupler will probably be easier to find. But good luck at Radio Shack; my experience recently is that all the salespeople want to sell you is a cell phone or an iPod or a TV or something and are useless if you’re looking for a cable or a part or something like that.
Even that’s going to be difficult. There’s just not much call for such a thing. Not that they don’t exist, but I haven’t been able to locate one.
I believe I have found at least one source. No idea about the company doing the selling.
Recently? Hell, they’ve been doing that for well on 30 years – the dorkism at RS’s is legendary*.
However, in every store that I’ve been in, they have the Big Wall Of Adapters, segregated by type – coax stuff here, audio stuff there, etc. It’s not that hard to figure out.
*actually, to be fair, I have on occasion run into helpful folks at RS that actually seem to know the store inventory pretty well. It’s been the exception, but it’s not a uniformly negative experience. OTOH, try asking for a BNC connector sometime, and how far you get.
True, but that section is still getting smaller and smaller. And these days I find that going to the mall (which is where the closest Radio Shack is to my house) is much more pleasant if I start listening to my iPod as I get out of the car and don’t take the earbuds out (unless I’m actually talking with someone, of course) until I get back to the car.
Last time I needed a part at Radio Shack, I needed some jumpers for a computer drive (don’t remember which one it was, I just remember I lost the jumper on the floor and could never find it.) So I looked on the website, saw that a local store had a 10-pack or so in inventory, and drove out there. No luck getting any help finding one; I eventually found what I was looking for after about 15 minutes of searching. Or there was the time I needed a telephone (what’s the actual name for that interface anyway) coupler and the sales drone apparently couldn’t even fathom the concept of a female-female coupler like that.
Anyway, I hope that link above helps the OP.
I bought a 12 inch one at a Radioshack, from a salesman who knew exactly what I was looking for even though I was having trouble elucidating it, for a very reasonable price. And when I lost it, I had the exact same experience at a different Radioshack in a different city. So I’d recommend giving them a call.
RJ11 (and variants).
Asterion, you just need to hang around silicon valley more, so you can go to Weird Stuff. This place is amazing – it’s ALL surplus oddball computer/technology …stuff. If you ask for a jumper, they’d ask “what color?”
Then there’s Fry’s, but they can be an exercise in customer service hell all on their own. But they sure got the gear.
Ummm… Hermaphrodite?
Jacks are female and plugs are male. Ergo, no such thing as a male jack.