running dogg wrote:

(snip)


Hi fi headphones are designed for use on stereo
equipment which means that they will have inadequate response for SW.


Did you mean that as you wrote it, RD? If so, you have me confused.
"Mono phones designed for SW listening will have inadequate response
for Hi-Fi listening" would make more sense, that's the only reason I ask.

Tony

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Tony Meloche wrote:

running dogg wrote:

(snip)


Hi fi headphones are designed for use on stereo
equipment which means that they will have inadequate response for SW.


Did you mean that as you wrote it, RD? If so, you have me confused.
"Mono phones designed for SW listening will have inadequate response
for Hi-Fi listening" would make more sense, that's the only reason I ask.

Ok, maybe not "response" in the way Li was talking about it. But I do
know that if you try and use stereo headphones on a mono only radio, or
mono phones on a stereo radio, that you will get all sorts of weird
results, such as only one of the sides working. For example, I tried
plugging in walkman phones to a RS mono FM radio, and only one side
worked.


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running dogg wrote:
Tony Meloche wrote:


running dogg wrote:

(snip)



Hi fi headphones are designed for use on stereo
equipment which means that they will have inadequate response for SW.


Did you mean that as you wrote it, RD? If so, you have me confused.
"Mono phones designed for SW listening will have inadequate response
for Hi-Fi listening" would make more sense, that's the only reason I ask.


Ok, maybe not "response" in the way Li was talking about it. But I do
know that if you try and use stereo headphones on a mono only radio, or
mono phones on a stereo radio, that you will get all sorts of weird
results, such as only one of the sides working. For example, I tried
plugging in walkman phones to a RS mono FM radio, and only one side
worked.


No question of that - the lightweight "so-so" RS phones I use for SW
listening work great. They are stereo, but there is a cheap adapter
plug you can get at RS that turns them into "mono".

Tony

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I own a pair of old World War Two headphones but I never use them.I
can't stand to wear headphones or use earbuds.They agravate the hell out
of me.
cuhulin

You can use a mono(male) to stereo(female) adaptor to allow
stereo earphone to work with a mono source.

The Radio Shack 274-368 is one such adaptor.

"Use stereo headset with mono device such as scanner!
* Accepts 1/8" stereo phone plug
* Fits 1/8" mono phone jack
* Lets you connect stereo headphones to scanner,
CB or shortwave radio, or recorder"

Terry