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Playstation 2 Headphone Connection?

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by silentdreamer17

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Hi there! Ok, I've tried everywhere and nobody could help, so maybe you could. I hope I'm at the right forum....I saw the word "tech" so I thought I'd give this a shot. :-)

I have a Playstation 2, and I would like to hook up my headphones to my tv so I can hear my game through them. I have no headphone hole for mt tv (just two input holes for the audio and visuals for my games) So, I went to Radio Shack and they gave me an adaptor (Stereo-to-Mono Audio Adaptor). It says this on the little box:

Accepts 1/8'' stereo
phone plug
fits phono jack

Well, for my PS2, I have those red/white/yellow plugs that I plug into the front of my tv, from the back of my PS2. The red I don't use, the white is for audio, and the yellow is for the picture. Well, the adaptor won't work no matter what I do....I saw I had to take the white audio plug out, and I took and plugged in my headphones with the adaptor in place. I even configuired the game and tv for headphones and mono seetings...and still nothing. There are no other plugs leading into my tv, and the only places left are the holes in the back of my vcr...but that doesn't do it either.

Anyhoo, did I get the wrong adaptor, or am I doing things wrong? It's like I need a way to hookup the adaptor with the headphones and the white audio plugged in both at the same time...but I can't. Any help would be great! Thanks!

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by thechas

The jacks on the back of the Play Station (and most other devices that plug into input jacks on TVs, Stereo's, and PCs) are low voltage and low current signals.
They do not have the power to run most headphones directly.

What you need is a smallamplifier with a headphone jack on it.
Perhaps the easiest way to do this, is to get a cheap set of amplified PC speakers that have a headphone jack, and the proper adapter cable to go from the 1/8" plug on the speakers to the RCA Phono plugs on the Play Station.

Chas

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