On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 09:31:24 +0100, Robin wrote:

On 08/10/2019 23:40, Dave W wrote:
On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:45:22 +0100, T i m wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 12:04:45 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Tuesday, 8 October 2019 18:43:52 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
We are looking for a straight cable converter that would take a 3.5mm
4 pole jack that would typically connect a headset into a Playstation
or X-Box but split it out into a 3.5mm 'stereo' jack (headphones) and
a 2.5mm (mono?) jack for the mic?

Plugs are male, jacks are female.

Not here in England they aren't:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)#Other_terms

The caption to the second picture on that page says otherwise.


Supported by the OED:

"1953 W. MacLanachan Television & Radar Encycl. 103/2 Jack and Jack
plug, a socket with two or more contacts..into which a jack plug with
corresponding contacts can be inserted"

And the way telephone lines are terminated with a line jack unit.

And that all may be so, but isn't necessarily taking into account the
UK usage of the term in general usage (not just telephones, where a
round plug hasn't been used (domestically) for *years* (if ever?)).

"In the UK, the terms jack plug and jack socket are commonly used for
the respective male and female phone connectors."

In contrast with:

"In the US, a stationary (more fixed) electrical connector is called a
jack.[3][4] The terms phone plug and phone jack are sometimes used to
refer to different genders of phone connectors,"

Like I said, 'here in the UK' (in 2019 ... ;-)

https://cpc.farnell.com/search?st=3.5mm%20jack%20plug
https://cpc.farnell.com/search?st=3.5mm%20jack%20socket


Cheers, T i m