headphone to telephone adaptor
headphone to telephone adaptor
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I thinking of piecing together of quick adaptor so that I able to plug my stereo headphones in place of my phones handset. I wondering if it is just as easy as buying a RJ-11, stereo plugs and wiring the right connectors together? I’m wondering if there will be an impedance problem or if I’ll need to amplify the signal from the phone.
At least once a month I have to listen in on an hour or two telephone conference call. I hate holding the receiver to my ear the whole time and wish to kind to my office mates by sparing them the tedium of my listening by speakerphone. I was thinking that I might be able to actually get work done if I had my hands free.
At least once a month I have to listen in on an hour or two telephone conference call. I hate holding the receiver to my ear the whole time and wish to kind to my office mates by sparing them the tedium of my listening by speakerphone. I was thinking that I might be able to actually get work done if I had my hands free.





RE: headphone to telephone adaptor
RE: headphone to telephone adaptor
Radio Shack (Tandy), and similar outfits, usually have little devices that connect the telephone line to a cassette tape recorder so that calls can be automatically recorded. They're fairly cheap (~US$10).
The above device would provide a good starting point. If you can mute the telephone mic, then you could connect it to an amplifier (portable stereo Aux in) and kick back to listen.
One advantage is it is all off the shelf.
RE: headphone to telephone adaptor
Costco sells an RF linked phone set with heads-free headset capability for about $170. You can use tany handset as a speakerphone and you can plug a standard headset into any handset and carry in around on your belt.
If you look around, you'll probably find a cheaper version
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It worked but volume is a bit lower than the handset.
Theres also some buzzing when the handset in the cradle and little sqweak when it is first removed from the cradle before I get the dial tone. I guess I'd need to amp the signal for it to work well but that would require power and I was hopeing to avoid that much complexity.
Oh well, I paid my $5 (cost of parts) and I learned.