2.5mm Mobile Headset To PC Converter

by Ziotek

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 0.5 x 3 inches ; 0.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000IZCUTQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #45 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Headphone Accessories
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 9, 2007

Product Description

Now you can use your mobile headset and its hands-free lapel or boom mic on your PC with this 2.5mm headset to dual 3.5mm minijack adapter. The adapter plugs into the 3.5mm microphone and headphones jacks on your soundcard or PC case.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool, cheap, and good, October 1, 2007

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Hepamorphonic - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 2.5mm Mobile Headset To PC Converter (Electronics)

This is the only place in the *world* I could find this type of adapter. Radio Shack apparently used to have one (Multimedia Headset Y-Cable, 42-2428) but discontinued it. I tested this item with a mono cell headset (3 conductors on the 2.5mm plug) and a stereo cell headset (4 conductors on the 2.5mm plug). It worked with both, but with the stereo headset, sound only comes through the right headphone channel. Sound records identically on both channels through the microphone however. Using this adapter I could use my cell phone headset to both listen to music and place Skype calls on my PC. The sound quality of both was fine. This is a very useful item to save having to buy a separate headset for VoIP calls.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple solution for VOIP on the road, April 21, 2008

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Walter L. Smith "wls508" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I use this little adapter with my laptop and my Blackberry headset in order to use VOIP (my company's OCS, Skype, VonageTalk, etc.). It lets me make hotspot calls more discreetly since I don't have to pull on a jumbo headset. I can hear others clearly and no one has complained about my voice quality. It certainly beats toting around multiple headsets.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cell Headset to PC Converter, March 16, 2010

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Cedryk (Portland, Maine) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 2.5mm Mobile Headset To PC Converter (Electronics)

I purchased this unit to adapt my Plantronics mono headset with mic's 2.5mm single plug to 3.5mm mic and 3.5mm headset jacks for PC sound card input or (in my case) an existing USB Digital Headset adapter.

This unit is intended for a stereo headset (2 headphones instead of the 1 on my Plantronics mono headset).
Using the mono headset with this unit causes feedback as one headset channel is fed back to one mic input.

TO USE THIS UNIT WITH MONO HEADSET:
Set the speaker type for the audio output (that this unit will plug into) to LAPTOP MONO SPEAKER. That solves any problems with interfacing your MONO headset to your sound system with this converter plug.

RECOMMENDATION:
Buying this unit allows you to use higher quality headsets with your sound card/USB sound device. It is worth it.
I bought 2.