Air France headphone jack
Aug 20, 2021, 10:29 am
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Aug 28, 2021, 8:26 am
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Aug 28, 2021, 8:45 am
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Yes, the third plug is, as I understand it, meant to power the noise cancellation. Which your Bose headphones would have had built in.
Aug 30, 2021, 2:43 pm
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Also, I was under the impression that some airlines have three prong headsets so stealing them would be of no use to you. Is this wrong?
Aug 30, 2021, 3:29 pm
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The third, smaller, prong is there to deliver power to active headphones.
Aug 31, 2021, 10:06 am
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Aug 31, 2021, 11:08 am
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...and in many cases you can plug in your stereo, single, 3.5 jack into any of the two plugs - and still get stereo audio. Only the 'old' plugs actually deliver only a single audio channel on each of those two prongs.
Aug 31, 2021, 7:59 pm
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To be fair when I use my adapter I never know for sure if I have it inserted the right way around so I may as well be listening to L in my right ear and vice versa that way too.
Sep 1, 2021, 1:17 am
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This was the case for the Air Europa 787 I was on last weekend. Didn't bring my 2-prong adapter and plugged the single 3.5 jack into one of the two plugs - and got full stereo sound.
I'm suspecting these are simply two stereo plugs, where the airline provided headphones likely just use one of the two. The fact that there is a second plug may just be for compatibility reasons?
I'm suspecting these are simply two stereo plugs, where the airline provided headphones likely just use one of the two. The fact that there is a second plug may just be for compatibility reasons?
Sep 6, 2021, 6:50 am
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This was the case for the Air Europa 787 I was on last weekend. Didn't bring my 2-prong adapter and plugged the single 3.5 jack into one of the two plugs - and got full stereo sound.
I'm suspecting these are simply two stereo plugs, where the airline provided headphones likely just use one of the two. The fact that there is a second plug may just be for compatibility reasons?
I'm suspecting these are simply two stereo plugs, where the airline provided headphones likely just use one of the two. The fact that there is a second plug may just be for compatibility reasons?
Chances are you didn't get a stereo sound, just a mono sound in both channels. That is a common "function" in putting a stereo prong into a mono hole, going back to when mono holes were actually a thing that made sense (accessibility things mostly).
It is feasible to just make two stereo connections and a twin-prong headset that works with this setup but it sort of negates the whole point of this setup in the first place.