Reddit mentions of C2G 40645 3.5mm Stereo Male To Dual RCA Female Audio Adapter, TAA Compliant, Black

I actually just bought a PS3 last week and had the same questions. Thankfully, while I had no help from others I figured it out myself.

I have a Dell LCD monitor (1920x1080) that I connect to my PS3 with and a set of speakers for audio output.

Mine works perfectly fine and I have never had any problems with display (or any of the horror stories that you mentioned.)

I do not have MW3, but I do have many games that output video from 720p to 1080i to 1080p and they all work fine and look completely natural as you would expect.

Pieces of hardware that you will need:
A HDMI to DVI cable, a 3.5mm Stereo Male To 2X RCA Female Adapter or Y splitter as some people call it, and female stereo coupler if you are going to plug it into a speaker instead of your PC. If just using PC speakers, then you do not need a coupler.

As for monitor recommendations, chose any that have a 1920x1080 resolution and has a DVI connector (most modern monitors should have this as default).

Hope this helps!


Edit: If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I remember how confused I was trying to set everything up.

Buy a stereo female RCA to 3.5mm male Y adapter. Then, you can connect it to your PC speakers. Just remember to change your PS3's audio output settings to output using the RCA cables. Here is what you need.

http://www.amazon.com/Cables-Go-Stereo-Female-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1289730471&sr=1-8

Your monitor doesn't have speakers, and you need speakers to get the sound, so the simple solution is to buy a set of computer speakers!

If the computer speakers have RCA inputs connectors, you will be good to go with the cables you have. If the computer speakers you buy have a 1/8" (also called 3.5mm) stereo input connectors, you will need one of these: http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=pd_sim_e_2

You will need these. Don't skimp out on a chep VGA cable. I bought one of the knock-offs on amazon and had terrible ghosting due to poor shielding.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-VGA-HD-AV-Cable/dp/B000B6MLTG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1377820603&sr=8-4&keywords=xbox+360+vga

http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377820697&sr=8-1&keywords=female+rca+to+3.5mm

I also use one of these for my setup.

http://xim3.com/

~~You could probably use something like this with one of these and one of these. I just grabbed the first search results so better prices could be found easily.
edit* you'd also need to find a female to female 3.5mm connector as well.... you might be better off finding a jack and having someone solder the connections. (this plus this and this)~~

or you could just get one of these

yes.

Get something like this http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1382909261&sr=1-10&keywords=rca+to+3.5mm+y+cable

plug the RCA's into the red and white, plug that headphone end into the mic or line/in into the pc's ports.

Alternately, you can go RCA to headphone, then just Y cable between the PS3 and computer's sound out.

I use a similar setup, HDMI to monitor... but then I run the red&white cables from the AV cable (that came with the ps3) into something like this C2G / Cables to Go 40645 3.5mm Stereo Male To 2X RCA Female Adapter, and then into my line-in. Works just fine for me.

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You need a 3.5mm to RCA wire. HOWEVER you need to be able to split the RCA's to the left and right. So look for a short 3.5mm adapter like this and then just some singular RCA cables one to each speaker.

You need an adapter. RCA to 3.5mm
https://www.amazon.ca/Cables-Go-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1499982730&sr=1-1&keywords=C2G+%2F+Cables+To+Go+40645

It's just a printing thing on the back. The 3.5mm port works as a strange hybrid COAX digital (SPDIF) INPUT on one channel, with ANALOG (full range) mono subwoofer OUTPUT on the other channel when you plug a standard 3.5mm stereo male (TRS) to dual RCA (Y adapter) into it, regardless of the indicated printing.

EXAMPLE:

• https://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Adapter-Compliant/dp/B000J1H4VI
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/RiteAV-Stereo-Female-Adapter-Y-Cable/dp/B0018MI5F6
  
  
  Alternatively, like a Mac's old 3.5mm headphone jack or a Chromecast Audio's output - That port can ALSO function as a optical SPDIF (Mini TOSLINK) connection - When a mini TOSLINK cable is inserted, it becomes another INPUT.
  
  EXAMPLE:
  
  
• https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Toslink-Mini-Feet/dp/B00JLTURKE
  
  This would give you a second optical input, but render the subwoofer output unuseable.
  
  Also, the DSP is complete shit. Stay away from the silly preset EQ modes!
  
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  EDITED - don't gamble on the earlier version having a sub out - I had read they're all the same except for the printing, some people say otherwise.

Not sure if you need male or female on the RCA, but here's both:

Male

Female

One of those should do the trick. Plenty of other options here if you want to shop around or decide you want to connect it directly to the speakers instead of going through your PC.

Ignore all the people being dicks; everyone is a noob at something and I'm sure they'd never admit what it is for them. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.

i didn’t vet these particular items, but the concept should work for your application.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YC7U0NE/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HYUQVVA/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000J1H4VI/

Y splitter or Y adapter: 3.5mm Stereo Male To 2X RCA Female Adapter

http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1370786488&sr=1-13&keywords=y+adapter+2+male+1+female+headphone

If 3.5mm inputs instead of RCA:

http://www.amazon.com/EarlyBirdSavings-Female-Headphones-Splitter-Adapter/dp/B008XYDV4C/ref=sr_1_18?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1370786488&sr=1-18&keywords=y+adapter+2+male+1+female+headphone

I have the same setup. What I did was use the little adapter that changes the red/white to 3.5mm headphones jack and plug it in to either the line in port on my computer, which in turn shares the speakers between computer and xbox. You could also get one of these and just join the speaker cable with the adapter.

This looks right if you want to do what he does in the video. You would need a 3.5mm male to male if you did it this way.

You can skip that part and get stereo femal to 3.5mm male like this cable instead. So get that, and get the VGA to DVID. adapter.

You also need the the actual xbox to VGA cable, obviously.

Here ya go, it'll cost you a whole 2 bucks.

The first one you mentioned seems to only have Digital Audio out (S/PDIF), which is not like the analog 3.5mm connection that is usually used, but a digital connection that is usually paired with a Stereo or Surround Sound system.

There are, however, converters that can take the digital signal and turn it back into Analog (they simulate such Stereo or Surround sound system) so that you can use it with your headset.

The Visio one with the 3.5mm headset connection is pure analog with no need for converters other than a simple cable that splits it into RCA for your Sennheiser.

If you have any more questions, just ask!

You could get something along this.
Attach the composite cables you got along with the ps3 and enable multiple audio out put.
http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-Go-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1345603696&sr=8-6&keywords=RCA+to+3.5mm
grab one of those to adapt it to a 3.5mm jack
and an basic amplifier likehttp://www.amazon.com/Fiio-E6-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B005HJWWW8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1345603754&sr=1-1&keywords=fiio+e6
I personally use that same set up to hook up audio to my ATH-A700s

hdmi won't matter, this is using the normal output. you won't be able to tell the difference if there even is any.

this is the cable you will need http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY-Premium-Digital-Microsoft-equipment/dp/B0030CGMAC/ref=sr_1_1?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1345857433&sr=8-1&keywords=xbox+vga+cable

then for the audio you will need an rca to micro plug adapter
something like this http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Audio-Cable-Splitter-1-Mini/dp/B00004Z5CP/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1345857518&sr=1-1&keywords=rca+to+3.5mm with these to bridge the cable http://www.amazon.com/Female-to-3-RCA-Coupler/dp/B002B8WVVU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1345857578&sr=1-1&keywords=rca+female+to+female



or you could use something like this http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-Go-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1345857518&sr=1-5&keywords=rca+to+3.5mm

i would then run the 3.5mm cable through the input on my computers soundcard and have windows listen to that and output through my default output. that way I could control the sound with my keyboard. since I had 2 monitors, and the one I was using had a dvi and vga input, I would just switch the input in the monitor settings (on the actual monitor, not within windows) and it would display the game on my main monitor and I could still use my second monitor to look things up on my computer. now since I have DaS for PC, I don't need to do that anymore, just running it in windowed mode :D

Also found this

Okay, I found a solution after a bit of research. A RCA Audio Piggyback Cable, 2 RCA Male to 2 RCA Male + RCA Female Piggyback + 3.5mm Stereo Male To Dual RCA Female Audio Adapter + volume control attenuator will solve the problem, for about $20 to $30.

Back in the day I bought one of These

one of these

and one of these

Connects any standard headphones directly to the xbox RCA output

There we go. well basically buy an adapter.


EDIT: This one is cheaper

well if you dont want to make custom cables or cut and solder the original one, the easiest way would be buying a 3.5mm male to 2 rca males cable, and then a 2 rca female to 3.5mm male adapter / cable and swap the rca cables.

EDIT: Those cables will give you the fix for whatever you want to connect to it. But if you want to only connect a windows PC to it, you can use voicemeeter, or voicemeeter banana, its a virtual mixer and it can swap the L+R signals in the output, there is a button that says mono, click it 2 times and the icon should change to lines swapped, then just leave it like that

Use a 3.5mm to RCA adapter

There's a very simple and cheap, entirely passive two-step adapter solution I'm using myself:

First, you need an RCA to 3.5mm adapter, one of these (although you can find it for cents if you're looking around a bit). This adapter was originally meant to go the other direction, but we want the opposite, so we need a 3.5mm double female coupler.

So, instead of plugging the audio into the converter, it goes into the above adapter. Plug your speakers or headphones into the other end of the coupler and you're done.

If you have a console like the PS2, Gamecube, Wii or original Xbox, I would recommend not using a composite to HDMI adapter, but instead a component to HDMI adapter. As the name implies, the image signal gets split into three different color channels via three separate wires, which results in much higher image quality and stability. These cables are more expensive, as are converters, but the difference is substantial.

With systems like the SNES or older, I can not recommend a simple HDMI converter, since the types of signals these systems produce are not suited to simple analog to digital conversion. I wrote a bit about this here, if you're interested. I go into much further detail in some replies.

Almost all converters introduce additional lag, but there are pricey ones that reduce the delay to almost nothing. What's your budget and which systems are you trying to connect to your monitor?

My Dad has a Bose iPod dock he hooked straight into his DirecTV box using one of these. It works great & you can just use the red & white RCA cables for any component (we switched it over to his blu-ray player last night to watch some BSG).

This adapter is all you should need to record audio to the microphone jack of your computer.

You don't have the red/white RCA but you probably have a 3.5mm jack on the monitor. Get this...

http://www.amazon.com/Cables-Go-Stereo-Female-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1321466088&sr=8-6


For the VGA you'll want something similar to these...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=vga+switch&x=0&y=0

This will work along with your A/V cables that came with the PS3. As far as how to connect it, it depends on what kind of speakers you have. You may have to use one of these in order to complete the connection from your speaker's male 3.5mm to the male end of the 3.5mm coming from the adapter mentioned before. You can use the video from the HDMI and audio from the A/V connection simultaneously.

Yep. Here's a link to one. If you don't have a long enough AV cable for the adapter, something like this or even this should also work dandy.

There's nothing worse than having to sit 3 feet from the TV because your cord's too short.

I know its possible to split the audio and video. Would I be able to plug this into my computer http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/ref=pd_sim_e_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=06N2HKNHQW9FXK04DAMX and where would I plug it to send the sound out of the sound system?

the official microsoft vga cables (the original grey ones, not sure of the new black ones) will have all the adapters and gender changers you need in the box.

the only thing you need is a digital audio cable to connect the Astro A40 (this is the same cable you will need with the xbox one)

http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Digital-Optical-Audio-Toslink/dp/B001TH7GSW/

(if you want to use surround with the A40s. if you do not want surround you dont even need this cable)

if you will only be using the A40s than you are done. if you want to use the monitors built in speakers, you need this kind of adapter. again, it comes in the box of the original grey cables, i am not sure about the new black ones:

http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40645-Stereo-Adapter/dp/B000J1H4VI/

if this is too bulky to fit at the back of your monitor, the same thing exists in cable form:

http://www.amazon.com/Hometheatre-Female-Splitter-Cable-6-Inch/dp/B0016LC5VY/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K3OT2P2/

This one looks okay. For audio, you need RCA to 3.5mm, like this or this.