In the professional audio system, the line of sight of people usually focus on the mainequipment, but when fault occurs in the sound system, a problem often are wire, sometimes forwire burned, sometimes for plug bad contact, sometimes...... Therefore, in the stereo system,wire, joint effects can not be ignored. So for the wire in a sound system and joint, you know how much? This article is aimed at the following use of the term joint and wire, not familiar with the friend can see. Professional audio joint term introduction:

1, TS: often called tone (sound) joint, the joint generally is composed of two contacts,respectively Tip (+); Sleeve (Ground).

2, RCA: general case called lotus head (the name is named after the RCA joint on certain types of seeming lotus petal,), the joint generally is composed of two contacts, respectively Positive (+); Ground (Sleeve), usually use coaxial cable connection, so often used in general home audio equipment.

3, Speaker: Banana head, under normal circumstances can cover locking to have the seat of speakers on the use of rotary joint.

4, XLR: we are collectively referred to as the head of the Cannon, the joint generally iscomposed of three contacts, respectively Ground (Sleeve); Positive (+); Negative (-), is often used in a microphone; recording equipment.

5, Combine: a socket special, usually can choose to use XLR and TRS two specifications.

6, Adapter: various conversion joint, mainly used in a variety of different joint conversionbetween. Stereo connector commonly known as the 7, TRS:, the joint is composed of three contacts were Tip (+); Ring (-); Sleeve (Ground), often used in recording equipment.

8, MIDI: general is the use of joint in the MIDI application, there are usually five pin, transferthe relevant information on the MIDI.

Wire term professional audio system introduction:

1, Optical, Cable, optical fiber, mainly used in CD or MD sound recording equipment, digital signal transmission wire is often used under normal circumstances, ADAT is also therepresentative of the use of such wires to make digital multitrack recording transfer tool.

General 2, Patch Cable: three core wire, mainly used in Patch Bay has different specifications of the Bantam and TT etc..

General 3, Microphone Cable: using the microphone wire, usually has two core core core;three; four; five core range, usually professional microphones usually uses more than three core wire are respectively connected to the XLR connector of Ground; +; - three point.

4, the Digital Cable: AES/EBU110ohm professional digital transmission wire specifications(IEC958Type1), general for three core, and usually use XLR type connector to connect.

5, Coxial Cable, is a coaxial cable, general RCA joint is the most commonly used wire andcoaxial cable, S/PDIF digital signal is the use of 75Ohm wire rod.

6, MIDI Cable, is usually used in the MIDI application of the wire, the general case for the five core lines, transmission of relevant information on the MIDI.

Under normal circumstances, 7 Speaker Cable: two core wire, the application also has a variety of different specifications.

8, Multicable: general is a plurality of signal wire wrapped in the same protection tube, but most are connected internally by the system, to reduce the number of single wire.