StarTech.com Headset Adapter, Microphone and Headphone Splitter - 3.5mm Male Aux to 3.5mm Female Audio & Mic Combo Jack Y Cable for Laptop / PC (MUYHSMFF)

Without bragging too much, I've just recently bought a new Dell laptop. i7 processor, Solid State Drive, lightweight body. BUT: where my previous laptop had double 3.5mm sockets for my headset/Skype phone, the Dell only has one. Having been sold a totally useless splitter by a music shop overseas (which was only designed to allow two people to listen to one output, not the other way round) I was getting a bit desperate but then remembered my usual mantra - 'Try Amazon'. Trust me, there aren't many single 3.5mm (or USB that I could find) headsets around these day (certainly not for a 'reasonable' price) and I could see myself doomed to using my old laptop for teleconferences, webinars etc. And there are even less splitter adapters. Well I did try Amazon, and for £4.63 got this wonderful product that works like a dream. It even has the headphone and mike plugs marked like they were on my old laptop - fair enough, it took me a while to actually find that out: trial-and-error had worked up to then. Truly lovely. ALSO, and I'm going to add this to all the reviews I'm hoping to do for the other 13 things I bought at the same time, I have to really commend Amazon on their Collect + pick up system. Having been overseas working on one job and just passing through London to another one, I had a problem getting the order delivered to home (especially as I have absolutely no faith in the Royal Mail to do the job, no matter how much you pay them) and so tried the Collect + system. Luckily, my local BP garage has both this and the Locker system. Unfortunately, the latter only allows three days before pick-up whereas Collect + gives you ten. This suited my ordering window - especially as the delivery was still mainly being done by the said unreliable Royal Mail. Apart from some plaintive reminders that I hadn't picked up the orders, it worked brilliantly. Top marks to Amazon once again - and up yours to the British Government.

I would recommend the Startech 3.5mm splitter adapter to anyone in the market for one. I have had mine a few months now and overall i am impressed. The splitter allows you to connect a Mic and and Earphone socket into one 3.5mm jack. This product will NOT allow you to connect two earphones to one 3.5mm jack (to clear up any confusion some people have been having). For my purposes this product worked well when connected to and Ipad Mini. I used it in a complicated set up i designed, which incorporated multiple splitters and they all worked as expected. The quality of materials used is fairly poor though, this is a fairly cheaply made product being sold at a fairly cheap price, but it does its job. The poor quality of materials is nothing to worry about though as long as you store you cables properly or leave them plugged in for a long time untouched. Anyone wanting a Splitter for use whilst travelling may want to find a more rugged design, but for home use it is completely fine. As long as you fully understand what this product does and the equipment you are plugging it into then there should be no problems in terms of it working.

Perfect for if you're an idiot like me and buy a headset that has 2 cables and you need to plug it into 1. Also is useful if you want to disconnect your microphone easily. Durable, cheap, effective.

I find it infuriating that I can't buy a robust headset-with-microphone to use with my iPhone 4S... so that I can use my phone in the car or as I wander around at home or work without going wireless. I hate wireless and it's maddening unreliability. The delicate Sennheiser headphones with mic' stocked in Mac stores does the job but I've had two of those at around £80 each and they soon stop working - first one channel cutting out then the next. In short, they are too delicate. I wanted an unfancy headset, with a boom mic, that allowed me to continue working without a fuss. So I bought a Logitech H250. But it came with x2 3.5mm jacks, not one, so I couldn't plug it into my iPhone. After lots of searching I found this item. It's very fine quality and it works, kinda. If my iPhone 4S rings and I plug it in and I don't manhandle the phone too much all is well. But if I keep the unit plugged in and my iPhone rings I can't pick-up the call. The phone won't take my instruction. I have to unplug the headset first. Also, if I dial a switchboard with the headset plugged in, it often hangs up the call and switches to iTunes automatically! Strange but true! It also switches to iTunes and cancels the call if I wander around holding the phone as I talk. So... it works only up to a point. I find it ideal in the car if I am on a long call and I can connect the call first manually and then plug in. But it is restricting otherwise. Why oh why someone (Apple!) don't make something corded that works reliably I cannot imagine.There'd be a huge market for it. I'm rating it 5star because it a well made bit of kit but it only partly does the job I bought it for.

I bought this splitter cable to connect an older model headset to my laptop, which only had one combined plug for headphones and microphone. The splitter does its job for sure, but I always thought the plug was a bit loose and my headset got disconnected quite easily. After about a year of daily use, the splitter plug has become so loose that it falls out of the laptop socket at the slightest movement, making it very difficult for me to use the laptop in bed for example. Admittedly, I have stumbled on the wires more than a few times over the year, violently yanking the plug out, which of course could account for the current problems. Even so, I always assumed that the damage from this would be to the socket on the computer, but recently tried another headset and didn't have any looseness issues.... So if you buy this adapter cable, it works fine for what it is intended for, but be careful with it as it seems to take damage rather easily.

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Works well

Ich Skype gerne mit Hilfe eines Head-Sets mit meinen Freunden im Ausland und mein alter Samsung Laptop hatte 2 Buchsen für Kopfhörer und Mikrofon. Mein neuer Lenovo hat nur noch 1 Buchse. Daher benötigte ich einen Adapter um weiterhin mit meinem Headset zu skypen. Dieser Adapter arbeitet einwandfrei, die Eingänge / Ausgänge sind gut beschriftet und man kann beim Anschließen eigentlich keinen Fehler machen. Ich bin zufrieden, mein Head-Set funktioniert mit diesem Adapter wieder einwandfrei. Ich würde genau diese Adapter wieder kaufen. Ich habe in den gängigen Elektromärkten nach so einem Adapter gesucht, aber nichts unter 25€ gefunden, daher den 5. Stern für das sehr gute Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis.

Adapter solidnie wykonany, działa dobrze. Polecam

I got the new 2013 iMac to replace my monster of a Windows rig that I built 6 years ago. Figured I'd try out a Mac. I knew it would force a lot of upgrades and replacements of peripherals, but I did not know that the new iMacs use the "smart plug" 3.5mm audio jack that combines the audio output (headphones) and input (mic) into one, single jack. This made my Windows style headset useless, but more than that it made my audio system setup inoperable. I have my computer connected to my 5.1 surround sound stereo system, both for output listening to iTunes and other audio as well as input from other devices connected to the stereo for recording. I needed a solution that would undo Apple's "bright idea" of combining all audio functions into one plug. I can understand such decisions when space is a premium such as laptops, notebooks, cell phones, and tablets... but a 27" desktop iMac computer??? Really? Anyway, this little gadget does the trick! It splits out the audio output from the audio input beautifully and once again gives us 2 different jacks serving different functions to plug in our various audio devices. This is NOT an audio output splitter or y-adapter. You would not plug in 2 headphone into this. Instead, it once again gives us a plug for a microphone and a second plug for a headphone. I was a little worried that this StarTech adapter would not allow stereo sound, but it does. Very nice! It's a great product! Just FYI, I've done this with my system. After plugging the StarTech jack in, I plugged an 3.5mm stereo audio y-adapter into the headphone jack to split the audio output so that I could plug my stereo system and my headphones into the iMac and hear sound from both. It works great! There is a little picture of a microphone on one of the StarTech jacks, and a little picture of headphones on the other jack. It's a little hard to see since it's all the same color, black, but that's fine. I then plugged in the microphone jack from my headset into the StarTech microphone jack. Once you have all the connections plugged in you may need to re-boot or re-start your computer so that the "smart plug" notices that there is now a microphone attached and allows sound to be inputed into the iMac and the mic to work. Also, just in case you are new to the iMac like me, it seems the the iMac's built in mic continues to function even if headphones are plugged into the headphone jack.