3.5 mm Stereo Plug to 2x RCA Sockets — 10 cm Adaptor Lead
Which way round it goes. The single black plug is the male end: it pushes into a 3.5 mm socket — a phone or tablet headphone jack, a laptop or PC output, a car stereo aux input, the input on a set of powered speakers or a soundbar. The red and white ends are sockets, so a pair of ordinary RCA plugs pushes into them. That is the whole part: a short tail that converts a pair of RCA plugs into one 3.5 mm plug.
Check compatibility
Check the gender before you order — it is the one thing that catches people out. This lead has RCA sockets (holes) and a 3.5 mm plug (a pin). If what you need is the opposite — two RCA plugs going into a 3.5 mm socket — that is a different lead and we stock it separately; message us and we will point you at the right one. If you would rather have no cable at all, we also sell the same connection as a rigid one-piece adaptor.
Key product details
- One 3.5 mm stereo plug. A 3-pole TRS male plug that goes into any standard 3.5 mm headphone or aux socket.
- Two RCA sockets. Red and white female sockets that accept an ordinary pair of RCA plugs.
- 10 cm lead. A short flexible tail rather than a rigid block, so the weight of a cable is not hanging off the socket and nothing fouls the port beside it.
- Stereo, not mono. Left and right both travel on the single plug; the sockets are colour-coded red and white the usual way round.
- Moulded strain relief. Ribbed relief where the cable enters each of the three connectors.
- Black, 0.1 m. WES/Daichi order code AL642.
About this item
What people use it for. Most often it is the last 10 cm of a longer run — you already own an RCA lead, or a console AV lead whose red and white audio plugs are spare, and the thing you want to plug into only has a 3.5 mm socket. It also gets used the other way in a rack: a turntable pre-amp, CD player, mixer or hi-fi output already on RCA plugs, feeding a small powered speaker or a computer line-in.
What it is not. It is not a composite AV lead: there are two RCA sockets for stereo audio, not three, and no yellow video connector, so it carries sound only. It is not a 6.35 mm (quarter-inch) adaptor and it is not 2.5 mm. It does not split one source into two — the left and right channels are separated, they are not duplicated. If you are unsure whether it suits your setup, send us a message with the make and model of both ends and we will check it for you.
Complete your setup
Need the cable from the two RCA sockets to your matching stereo equipment? See our 1.2 m twin RCA male-to-male audio lead. Red/white or red/black RCA pairs carry left/right analogue audio.
Choose only what your setup needs. Linked items are sold separately.
