{"id":275,"date":"2019-06-06T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/?p=275"},"modified":"2019-06-06T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:40:42","slug":"whats-inside-a-usb-c-to-3-5mm-adapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/2019\/06\/06\/whats-inside-a-usb-c-to-3-5mm-adapter\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s inside a USB C to 3.5mm adapter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a cheap passive USB Type C to 3.5mm 4-pole AUX audio adapter from AliExpress here to open up (which reverses stereo channels, would not recommend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a passive adapter, not an active one with a DAC, like the ones needed for most USB-C laptops, iPads, Google Pixels and some other phones. Though the majority of USB-C phones do use the DAC built into the phone and will work fine with a cheap passive adapter, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trademe.co.nz\/Browse\/SearchResults.aspx?searchString=ugreen+usb+c+to+3.5mm&amp;type=Search&amp;searchType=all&amp;user_region=100&amp;user_district=0&amp;generalSearch_keypresses=23&amp;generalSearch_suggested=0&amp;generalSearch_suggestedCategory=\">ugreen<\/a> ones I sell here in New Zealand, which have the 3.5mm stereo channels set correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, here are the photos of what&#8217;s inside a passive adapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1563\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190223_175636.jpg?fit=756%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"276\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/?attachment_id=276\" 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class=\"wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134541.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134541-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134541-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134541-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134541-1250x782.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134541-200x125.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1563\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134550.jpg?fit=756%2C473&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"279\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/?attachment_id=279\" 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class=\"wp-image-280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134636.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134636-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134636-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134636-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134636-1250x781.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_20190227_134636-200x125.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a cheap passive USB Type C to 3.5mm 4-pole AUX audio adapter from AliExpress here to open up (which reverses stereo channels, would not recommend). This is a passive adapter, not an active one with a DAC, like the ones needed for most USB-C laptops, iPads, Google Pixels and some other phones. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adriel.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}