Full fit
6.35 mm TS plug
Tip to tip, sleeve to sleeve. The intended pairing.
6.35 mm TS jack
Two-conductor quarter-inch socket. A TRS plug will seat in it, shorting its ring to the sleeve.
Contacts
| Position | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | tip |
| 2 | sleeve |
What it mates with
Mating is directional, so the two lists below are genuinely different: a TS plug in a TRS socket and a TRS plug in a TS socket short different things.
6.35 mm TS jack used as the plug
Nothing recorded with this connector as the plug.
6.35 mm TS jack used as the receptacle
Partial fit
6.35 mm TRS plug
Mirror of the TS-into-TRS case, and the reason both directions are stored separately.
- shortThe plug's ring rides on the jack's sleeve, so whatever the ring carries is shorted to ground. A stereo source loses its right channel into a short rather than into an open circuit, which some outputs do not like.
Devices with this connector
amplifier board
Estimated5 ports