In case you’re wondering, some broadcast equipment, such as the Axia Radius, uses Ethernet sockets for the connection of balanced and unbalanced audio.
This simplifies cabling, but you need adapters at the end of each cable to go back to RCA, TTS, XLR etc.
This looks so cursed
How else did you think they got the dialup noises to play?
Dialup didn’t use ethernet cables.
Care to elaborate? I can’t find any information searching online.
No.
This could come in handy for my USB industrial smelting oven
Useless, you can’t charge from USB-a!
(Seriously, it would be a fun project to stuff a USB powersupply in the 400v plug and a add a USB-c cable to mess with people at work… I’d do it but we only have 230v 3-phase outlets and that plug is probably too small.)
You could use it if you had another one with a female headphone jack. You could play your music to a speaker in another room if you have Ethernet in both rooms. Copper is copper.
I’ve done this. I’ve made speaker wire to ethernet adaptors to connect speakers in a different room through the walls to an amp. Feels and probably is so wrong.
It really depends how much power you put through the cable, ethernet is something like 0.2 mm2 per core. You’d definitely want to double up cores.
While, as you said, both wires will conduct electricity just fine, they will have different AC impedance.
I would guess this wouldn’t make much of a difference if you go Audio->Ethernet->Audio, since sound is at fairly low frequencies. But Ethernet->Audio->Ethernet might have problems with really high data rates, like GiB/s.
Hell, 10/100base-t only uses four wires so you could run internet through a 4-pole 3.5; though YMMV depending on the particular 3.5mm’s specs. I don’t know if drivers would be a problem, but perhaps a 4-pole 3.5 to USB would be handy.
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Fun fact: usb uart to audio jack is actually a thing: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1G43QaOnrK1RjSsziq6xptpXaN/win8-10-android-mac-pl2303hxd-usb-uart-ttl-to-2-5mm-audio-jack-serial-adatper-cable.jpg
Some older android phones used the audio jack double duty as a serial debug console, the nexus 5 for example.
You can turn literally any signal into another it’s great.
I totally used an adapter like that. It did have a raspberry pi in the middle, though.
Can I do dial-up over VoIP?
Finally, I can connect my Sinclair ZX Spectrum to Ethernet!
Only if you have the TRS to D-DVI converter, and those are super super rare.
This is so you can record the dial-up sounds.
I mean, network cabling is the same unshielded twisted pair wiring we’ve used for analog telephone audio over the last 150 years.
Btw, when do we get Micro Ethernet?
…for audio streams?
I mean, if the adaptor is active, this could actually work. I have a fucking USB-fed Router/Modem in a case this size.
HdbaseT audio only?
what it do
direct music streaming
It gives you the old dial-up modem sound
could be used to use lan cables as aux extentions
I know that’s a thing for usb to get over the 16ft limit.
You can send all kinds of signals over ethernet cables tbh
