"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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A thread on another group suggested that these are the norm today.

no way!

Not
being one who avidly reads the Hi-Fi press, is this so? The poster was
adamant it was the *only* way to feed 5.1 speakers etc that have
internal
amps, as unbalanced would cause hum etc. This was from the US, though.

RCA jacks are unfortunately still alive and well in the USA.

That seems to be the situation everywhere, Arny.

Unfortunately so, it seems.

Is it normal in the US to refer to RCA connectors as jacks?

No, just the jacks. We call the plugs, well we call them RCA plugs.

One might think that if RCA jacks are still alive and well, that maybe,
just maybe the plugs are also alive and well. Or not.

It is true that inference is also alive and well in most parts of the world,
right?

In article , Arny Krueger
scribeth thus

"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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A thread on another group suggested that these are the norm today.

no way!

Not
being one who avidly reads the Hi-Fi press, is this so? The poster was
adamant it was the *only* way to feed 5.1 speakers etc that have
internal
amps, as unbalanced would cause hum etc. This was from the US, though.

RCA jacks are unfortunately still alive and well in the USA.

That seems to be the situation everywhere, Arny.

Unfortunately so, it seems.

Is it normal in the US to refer to RCA connectors as jacks?

No, just the jacks. We call the plugs, well we call them RCA plugs.

One might think that if RCA jacks are still alive and well, that maybe,
just maybe the plugs are also alive and well. Or not.

It is true that inference is also alive and well in most parts of the world,
right?




I've never known them to be called anything other than Phono plugs over
here....
--
Tony Sayer

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In article , Arny Krueger
scribeth thus

"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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A thread on another group suggested that these are the norm today.

no way!

Not
being one who avidly reads the Hi-Fi press, is this so? The poster was
adamant it was the *only* way to feed 5.1 speakers etc that have
internal
amps, as unbalanced would cause hum etc. This was from the US, though.

RCA jacks are unfortunately still alive and well in the USA.

That seems to be the situation everywhere, Arny.

Unfortunately so, it seems.

Is it normal in the US to refer to RCA connectors as jacks?

No, just the jacks. We call the plugs, well we call them RCA plugs.

One might think that if RCA jacks are still alive and well, that maybe,
just maybe the plugs are also alive and well. Or not.

It is true that inference is also alive and well in most parts of the
world,
right?

I've never known them to be called anything other than Phono plugs over
here....

You mean you call the jacks plugs?

Over here we call the plugs plugs and the jacks jacks. You mean you Brits
don't?

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?

"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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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?

The original terminology was for plugs and jacks. The word "socket" doesn't
seem to have been used. But personally I'd never use the word "jack" except
for the sockets that take switchboard type plugs, either 2 or 3 pole (never
seen the point of calling 3-pole ones "TRS") or the miniature versions of
the same. Anything else just has plugs and sockets IMO.

David.