Plug, socket or jack cable



What types of jack plugs are available?
Because of that jack cable is widely used in audio cables, it is worth getting to know it better and learning to distinguish it. Most often, the jack cable is used to transmit an analog audio signal. Jack plug it is a characteristic long pin with a sleeve, ring and nose, separated by contacts. And depending on the type and purpose of a given audio cable, jack plug may have a different number of contacts, and thus a different number of rings separating them, as well as the number of pins used. These differences determine the symbol of a given plug, and so: no ring and two pins mean plug type TS ; one ring and three pins are plug type TRS , two rings and four pins are in turn plug type TRRS