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I’m also voting for the sonos adapter. Great value and I have zero complaints so far after almost a year.
edit: I’m a mac user (M1 15.4.1)

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I use these, dead cheap works a treat: Amazon.co.uk

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I use one of these: AMS-22. Not tiny but pocket-sized with some really handy features.

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Isn’t this for TRRS operation to support cellphone earbuds and gamer headsets with a built-in mic?

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it’s trs for sure and now I’m seeing that sonos makes the same cable with the same ‘bidirectional’ specification. Kind of tempted to try that one but I expect it will also just show up as an output only.

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Those usb-3.5mm cables might only enable input functionality when connected to certain headphones like AirPods Max or Sonos Ace.

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If you’re talking the “Sonos Line-In Adapter” posted above, it is neither bidirectional nor does it show up as output only. It’s a line-in device. It shows up as input only.

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There is no specific headphone requirement. It just has to have a standard TRRS jack with the second ring wired to a mono mic. Unless you have a “call center” headset with independent plugs for mic and audio, this is how basically all wired headphones with integrated mics work. It’s very common.

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Here are the USB-3.5mm cables we are talking about:

These have 3.5mm TRS plugs. (It’s not the Sonos Line-In Adapter.)

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This is the sonos cable you use for line-in:

@Elijah I’m getting the sense you might be in the wrong thread, as this one is about stereo input usb-c dongles, not headphone adapters…

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Ah, I see. Sorry, the link above jumped me to the bottom of the page which featured the standard Apple 3.5 female to USB-C adapter and I made all the wrong assumptions :man_bowing:

[edit: cut out a bunch of speculation here that would only confuse things further]

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Have you noticed any latency with the sonos adapter? I’m seeing some mentions on other forums of a 75ms delay but maybe that’s just with sonos software adding in a delay to compensate for syncing at some point?

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Absolutely, there’s noticeable latency. I would never use it for tracking, but rather for quick recording of ideas and sketches.
If you want low latency, you need an audio interface.

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It’s donglier than I’d like since theres a split for headphones on the cable, but I think this is it:

stereo, low latency, usb c

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There’s also the Rode MicroAI