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Hosa 10' Stereo 3.5mm Mini Female to Two RCA Males Breakout Y-Cable

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Upon purchasing my new Sharp LCD flat panel TV a few months back I discovered the set came without a headphone jack. Why manufacturers insist on doing this is beyond me as I know a lot of consumers would like the option of private listening. Living in a condominum where high decible sound travels to adjoining units can put me at odds with my neighbors so headphones are nice to have. Sometimes a movie has erratic sound levels and portions of dialogue are not audible or when my dishwasher and electric baseboard heater compete with TV sound or when I want to hear a music concert I find headphones are a nice option.
It was then I heard about the Hosa CFR 210. I ordered the product on Amazon and ..well..after a simple hookup to my two audio outlets that took all of 10 seconds I had headphone sound! The Hosa product has a 10 foot line and all you do is plug your phones into it and you're in business. One little negative to all this is (at least with my set)is that the volume on the phones remains the same (adequate)regardless of how high or low you set the TVs volume via your remote. My phones have their own volume control so this really poses no problem as I can turn the sound up or down anyway.
I highly recommend the Hosa CFR 210.

EXACTLY what I was looking for.

This one is 10 feet. If you want it just to use as an adapter, you want the 6 inch version: Cables To Go Hi-Clarity audio cable - 6 in ( 03182 )

You can accomplish the same thing with various, more common adapters (of course) but stringing them end to end started to get a little ugly. So I went online and found exactly what I was looking for. What I'm sure most people (even you) will be using this for is plugging headphones or computer speakers to the audio-out ports on a TV or game console. If you're using amplified computer speakers with their own volume, perfect. If you're using headphones, you'll need to get an in-line volume control or else, as said in another review, the volume cannot be turned up or down. Here's the one I bought. Koss VC20 Volume Control

I wanted a way to use headphones (or in my case, earbuds) with my TV. This cable seemed like the most inexpensive solution. I was a bit concerned before buying this because some reviews suggested that you wouldn't be able to adjust the volume without an inline volume control. My TV is a Toshiba Regza 37CV510U 720p and this cable works just fine with it. When I go into the audio settings and turn the TV speakers off, my earbuds pick up the audio and I am able to adjust the volume using the TV remote. The cable is also sufficiently long, so I don't have to use any kind of extension cable.

Just a few other observations...

I have to turn the TV volume up quite a bit compared to when the sound is just playing through the TV speakers. I usually keep the volume around 20 when playing through the TV speakers, but I have to turn it up to at least 40-50 when using my earbuds. However, this may be more attributable to my TV and/or earbuds rather than the cable itself.

I also noticed a considerable amount of static when watching a DVD on my Playstation 2. Again, this is probably being caused by my TV and/or PS2, not the cable.

At first I did not think that this was going to work for me because my goal was to have the TV volume low or off when I used the headphones. On my TV the volume DID increase when I crankend up my TV volume but the TV volume also increased which defeated the purpose of the head phones. But if I pushed mute I kept my headphone volume up with no volume from the TV. A perfect solution for a TV with no headphone jack.

i connected my tv RCA output to my computer speakers using this cable. It rocks!

I needed a way to connect my TV to my computer speakers. This worked perfectly

This item is well priced. The shipper was very fast. I would highly recommend this item to people who need this type of merchandise. Sometimes they are hard to find. Thanks to amazon foe having it available.

You get what you see... The Male RCA jacks are good quality and the 10 feet to the Mini jack was just what I needed. Maybe a couple dollars more than [...] but you get what you pay for! This was as good a a cable can be, it worked!

For listen to audio from a source like a TV these are a must buy. I could find the similar product at local stores for twice the price and they were all only 6in. I doubt that there is a better value out there.

With this, I can listen to my xbox with headphones, and not disturb anyone (except when I play drums on rock band....but thats another story!) only thing is, you have to use HDMI with the xbox and the sound adapter to get it to work, but its nice that you can plug headphones strait into the xbox...