Replacement headphone jack for C500?

[Guest DrEv1l666]

Hi All,

I am fed up of mangling my ears with the stock headphones that come with the SPV c500. I want to use my own headphones so is there a jack converter from a "normal" 3.5 headphone jack to the dinky smartphone jack plug?

Cheers

Simon.

[Guest PPCPassion]

Hi All,

I am fed up of mangling my ears with the stock headphones that come with the SPV c500.  I want to use my own headphones so is there a jack converter from a "normal" 3.5 headphone jack to the dinky smartphone jack plug?

Cheers

Simon.

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Check out this eBay listing or do a search on eBay. This guy sells all kind of adaptors. I bought one from him and am fully satisfied( No, I have no links to thsi seller):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

[Guest richard_hogg]

Or, try your local electronics store like maplin.

[Guest celica1.8st]

Or, try your local electronics store like maplin.

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Maplin don't do one ;) I tried the other week, they only sell a standard one (which I think has two black lines on the metal bit) The c500 needs one with 3 black lines on it.

If you settle for the one with two lines on then it will work but won't be quite - I think you get the right audio correctly but you get both right and left in the left or the other way round.

Expansys offer one for around £8 or £9 seemed to expensive for me so I settled for the cheap one from Maplin - but you can sort of notice that something isn't quite right :roll:

[Guest DJBenson]

Maplin don't do one :D  I tried the other week, they only sell a standard one (which I think has two black lines on the metal bit) The c500 needs one with 3 black lines on it.

If you settle for the one with two lines on then it will work but won't be quite - I think you get the right audio correctly but you get both right and left in the left or the other way round.

Expansys offer one for around £8 or £9 seemed to expensive for me so I settled for the cheap one from Maplin - but you can sort of notice that something isn't quite right :roll:

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That's not correct I'm affraid. The third stripe on the original C500 headphones is for the handsfree button on the headphones and for carrying the microphone signal. All you need is a standard 2.5mm to 3.5mm headphone adaptor. They are pretty common and usually sold as iPaq adaptors. Mine cost £3 delivered off eBay. Using such an adaptor will give you full stereo sound as loud as the phone can belt it out ;)

Using such an adaptor will invalidate the handsfree features.

Edited May 28, 2005 by DJBenson

[Guest Restorer]

Maplin don't do one ;) 

Oh yes they do - 99p. Got mine last week. Check out the website - it will tell you how many your local store has in stock.

[Guest hicks]

Yep, mine cost 99p from the local Maplins too, works just fine. Amazing how much of a difference a pair of semi decent headphones makes compared to the crappy ones that came with it ;)

[Guest DomConway]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=1144&doy=31m5

[Guest celica1.8st]

I settled for the cheap one from Maplin

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I know Maplin do one of the cheap ones - I got one!! BUt I'm sure it isn't quite right - If you have a look through Basso's posts on the tzzzt noise you will find some technical info on the problem with using a cheap connector. It's something to do with the positioning of the third line (the one for the handsfree button) It shorts out one of the other bits or something :roll:

Don't get me wrong it does the job ;)