Connection headset to ACER notebook with this adapter?
My Acer notebook has a 3.5 mm socket for external speakers on the right. Now I have a gaming headset (headphones with micro), this has three cables: a USB cable for the (completely pointless) headphone lighting (! Lighting), and two 3.5 mm jack plugs for micro and speakers in the headphones.
But the ACER only has one socket! If I plug the speaker jack plug into the notebook, the headphones work, but what about the microphone jack?
Now there are Y-psilon adapters from Sennheiser (see photo). Can I use one or something will break? Because I think to myself that the ACER output is an output and not an input for the micro, because of the pin assignment… And then the micro burns out?
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Thanks in advance…
Try it. None of this can break. I would type: yes.
OK thanks
No no nothing can break and should work. Sure the USB connection is "only" for the lighting? Which headset do you have?
Regards Evo
If the socket on the Acer is marked as headphone socket or pastel green, then I wouldn't expect it to be suitable as a signal input, and I wouldn't even try it for the reasons you mentioned - I'm not an expert either.
But if your Acer does not also have an input socket (with a microphone symbol or pink color coding), then you can connect the headphones via USB.
For this you need a corresponding adapter like this one:
ONIKUMA KC Professional Gaming Headset
Normally this is a combination socket, unless you have a garbage can as a notebook.
So should go. Nothing breaks if you test it.
ACER socket is not pastel green but black. There are two symbols on it: once headphones and once something I can't read.
Many Thanks!
Well, I haven't found the KC now, but it seems as if the manufacturer actually does it in such a way that it only supplies the LED lighting with power via the USB. But good that with the adapter should work as I said, is standard.
