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Phone connector (audio) Phone plug mated in a phone socket. The plug's grooved tip is held firmly by the socket's spring tip contact. When not mated, this spring instead connects to the flat switch contact for detecting a plug. A phone connector is a family of cylindrically -shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio signals.
A PC speaker is a loudspeaker built into some IBM PC compatible computers. The first IBM Personal Computer, model 5150, employed a standard 2.25 inch magnetic driven (dynamic) speaker. [ 1] More recent computers use a tiny moving-iron or piezo speaker instead. [ 2] The speaker allows software and firmware to provide auditory feedback to a user ...
RCA connector. The RCA connector[ 3] is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry audio and video signals. The name RCA derives from the company Radio Corporation of America, which introduced the design in the 1930s. [ 4] The connector’s male plug and female jack are called RCA plug and RCA jack .
General 3.5 mm computer headsets come with two 3.5 mm connectors: one connecting to the microphone jack and one connecting to the headphone/speaker jack of the computer. 3.5 mm computer headsets connect to the computer via a sound card, which converts the digital signal of the computer to an analog signal for the headset. USB computer headsets ...
Bose and Apple Computer partnered and made a snow white edition of the Roommate Powered speakers to accompany the new audio features of the Apple IIGS. In 1997 Apple again partnered with Bose to create an integrated Bose audio solution for the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, this borrowed 2 neodymium drivers from a Lifestyle 20 and a custom ...
Audio and video interfaces and connectors. Audio connectors and video connectors are electrical or optical connectors for carrying audio or video signals. Audio interfaces or video interfaces define physical parameters and interpretation of signals. For digital audio and digital video, this can be thought of as defining the physical layer, data ...
A pair of external speakers for notebook computers that are powered and audio-connected to the computer via USB. Computer speakers, or multimedia speakers, are speakers sold for use with computers, although usually capable of other audio uses, e.g. for an MP3 player. Most such speakers have an internal amplifier and consequently require a power ...
Headphones are a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears. They are electroacoustic transducers, which convert an electrical signal to a corresponding sound. Headphones let a single user listen to an audio source privately, in contrast to a loudspeaker, which emits sound into the open air for anyone nearby ...