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Headphones input in living room

733 Views 4 Replies 2 Participants Last post by banar, May 27, 2014

banar

Discussion Starter · Feb 21, 2014

I have Pioneer VSX-1023k in the closet with other equipment. Of course the TV is in the living room. I love watching it at night. Unfortunately, my family members are already asleep. I have nice Bose QC15 headphones that sound great.

I have 2 problems:

1. I hate running the wire from living room to the equipment closet every time I want to watch something

2. Only one person can watch it with headphones, as there is only one input.

My idea is to run the wire from 1/4inch headphones output through the basement and have a plug on the back wall, behind the sectional. This would allow me to connect my headphones whenever I want in 2sec

. Or those could be connected there all the time and would hang on headphones stand on side table.

If possible, I would like not one but 2 outputs in the wall so 2 headphones can be connected.

Also, I'm not sure if I would need an on/off switch on the wall or something like that, as the cable would be connected into the receiver all the time, so I'm not sure if it would even allow me still to listen to regular speakers with this cable connected, as the receiver will probably think that I use headphones all the time.

Please help and thank you in advance.

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vzphoneman

· #2 · Feb 21, 2014

I have done something similar to what you want to do. The biggest downside is I have to plug the headphone cable in when I want to use headphones as receivers mutes the speakers when the headphone jack is being used (no way around that). You could use a separate headphone amp but the other issue to consider is if you using analog pre-out's to feed a separate amp they will not output your digital inputs.

As far as using 2 headphones a splitter should work fine.

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banar

Discussion Starter · #3 · Feb 22, 2014

Hi Vzphoneman,

Anything you can share with me? What parts did you use? how does it look on your wall? Links to parts would be great.

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vzphoneman

· #4 · Feb 22, 2014

Starting in your basement run the 25ft (or whatever length you need, longer is better) 3.5mm Stereo Plug/Plug M/M Cable to the room with your receiver, leaving enough in the extra cable to route to the receiver. If you’re going to do a wall plate in that room I would use Wall Plate for Keystone, 1 hole leaving the hole open so you can pull the cable through.

Run the 3.5mm Stereo Plug/Plug M/M Cable across basement to your seating position and route up into room.

Connect the end of cable to a 6inch 3.5mm Stereo Jack/Two 3.5mm Stereo Plug Cable to split into two.

Get a Wall Plate for Keystone, 2 Hole and install 2 Keystone Jack - 3.5mm Stereo, Flush Type and plug them into the 6inch 3.5mm Stereo Jack/Two 3.5mm Stereo Plug Cable.

You may also need (3 ?) 6.35mm (1/4 Inch) Stereo Plug to 3.5mm Stereo Jack Adaptor to adapted the 3.5mm to your receiver and headphones.

Parts list for the above (all from Monoprice.com);

1) 25ft 3.5mm Stereo Plug/Plug M/M Cable Product ID: 646

1) Wall Plate for Keystone, 1 Hole Product ID: 6726

1) 6inch 3.5mm Stereo Jack/Two 3.5mm Stereo Plug Cable Product ID: 669

1) Wall Plate for Keystone, 2 Hole Product ID: 6727

2) Keystone Jack - 3.5mm Stereo, Flush Type Product ID: 6576

3) 6.35mm (1/4 Inch) Stereo Plug to 3.5mm Stereo Jack Adaptor Product ID: 7139

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banar

Discussion Starter · #5 · May 27, 2014

vzphoneman,

Thank you for your help. It's great. I just placed an order. The only difference was that I ordered all items gold plated, for extra $10, for the total of $25 with shipping included.

Thank you.

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