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Old June 11th 09, 09:38 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Laurence Payne[_2_]
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Default Balanced connections on domestic equipment.

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:06:49 +0300, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

That seems to be the situation everywhere, Arny.
Is it normal in the US to refer to RCA connectors as jacks?
That seems open to confusíon. What do you call the
TRS plug which we refer to as a jack?


We might loosely refer to it as a jack plug. But not as a jack. A
jack is a socket. A plug goes into a jack. I think this is the
terminology both sides of the Atlantic?