Price range: $10.99 through $29.95 Inc GST
An rca to aux cable runs the red and white outputs of an amplifier, receiver, mixer or DVD player into a 3.5mm socket on a phone, laptop, soundbar or pair of desktop speakers. Two phono plugs at one end, one stereo jack at the other, and a build a step above the usual bag cable.
The red plug is the right channel and the white is the left — that is the convention on every piece of hi-fi equipment made in the last forty years. The 3.5mm jack is the same plug a pair of headphones uses, so anything with a headphone socket or a line input will take it.
An rca to aux cable is passive and works in either direction. A turntable preamp into a laptop and a phone into an amplifier are the same job to the cable.
This is a Vention lead, and the difference from a generic one is in the parts rather than the marketing.
Gold-plated contacts resist corrosion on connectors that sit plugged in behind furniture for years. They do not improve the sound — nothing passive does, and an rca to aux cable claiming otherwise is describing physics that does not exist. What they do is stay reliable, which on a connection you cannot easily reach is worth more.
Machined metal barrels rather than moulded plastic, and a braided jacket that holds a bend instead of kinking. The failure point on any aux to rca lead is where the cable enters the plug, and a metal barrel with a proper strain relief is the part that decides whether it lasts two years or ten.
On most leads the honest answer is that the cheap one is fine. This is one of the cases where it is not, and the reason is physical rather than sonic: an rca to aux cable usually lives behind a cabinet, plugged in once and forgotten for years. Getting at it again means moving furniture.
A connection you cannot reach is a connection worth over-building. Corroded contacts and a cracked plug entry both produce the same symptom — one channel dropping in and out — and both are avoided by the parts rather than by the price.
The 3.5mm plug has three sections — tip, ring and sleeve — so left and right stay separate. A two-section plug sends one channel to both sides; a four-section plug is a headset lead with a microphone on it and will sound wrong here.
If an old rca to aux cable gave you sound in one speaker only, the plug was the reason.
It will not amplify. A turntable plugged straight into one of these without a phono stage produces almost nothing, because a turntable’s output is far too small. That is the turntable, not the cable.
It carries no video. A yellow RCA plug is composite video and is not part of this lead.
Stocked in 1m, 2m, 3m and 5m. Buy the length the run actually needs. A 5m rca to aux cable coiled behind a cabinet is not an audio problem but it is still a problem, and the extra length buys nothing on a line-level connection this short.
This rca to aux cable is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your aux to rca cable ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 90-day warranty and a team who can confirm it suits the gear you own.
Stocked here, not shipped from overseas. Order your rca to aux cable today and get the amplifier talking to everything else.
Compatible with anything that has red and white RCA at one end and a 3.5mm stereo socket at the other, including:
Which plug is which: red is the right channel, white is the left. A yellow plug is composite video and is not part of this cable.
Works in either direction — a passive lead with no electronics, so RCA out to 3.5mm in and 3.5mm out to RCA in both work.
What it will not do: amplify. A turntable without a phono stage will sound almost silent through it, and that is the turntable, not the cable.
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