Hi everyone. Looks like a great site. Hope someone can help me.
I have a set of wireless headphones connected to my home stereo using the left and right tape 2 outputs. This works great. What I would like to do is also use my headphones in my 5th wheel trailer. The stereo in it is a car stereo with left and right pre outputs only. Will I be able to connect the wireless transmitter to these outputs so I can get the sound to my wireless headphones? If not what would I have to do? Thanks

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, if it will work or not. Thanks

 

I assume it would work. How are you plugging in the jacks??? into RCAs? input? or output? and are you using the tape 2 output as well? try it out...whats the worst that will happenn?

 

Thanks for the reply. I would be connecting to the pre outputs from the car stereo to the imputs of the RF transmitter using regular RCA stereo cables. The tape 2 outputs I mention are on my house stereo, the car stereo does not have these outputs, just the pre outputs. I am not sure what it could hurt, if anything so that is why I am asking. I am hoping it will work just fine. Thanks again.

 

yep, it should work. Those are likely normal outputs on the back of oyur home audio amp/output. The outputs on your car stereo (as long as they're not sub out) are the same thing and will run at 'likely' a similar voltage. try it!!!!

 

i dunno ....if they work on normal RCA's from your home system they should work as long as the voltage is remotley close

 

That's my problem, I do not know if the voltage is the same out of the car stereo pre out as compaired to the home stereo tape 2 out. Thanks for the replys

 

The voltage output of your home stereo tape out RCAs is fixed, while the voltage from the car stereo deck RCAs is variable through the volume control ****.

The louder you turn up the car stereo, the more voltage is sent to the RCA, but the home stereo tape output is fixed regardless of volume level.

Regardless, what you want to do will work just fine. Just keep the volume on your car stereo at about 25%, and adjust your listening volume on the wireless headphones.

If full blast on the headphones isn't as loud as it is on your home stereo, then keep the headphones at full and slowly turn up the deck volume in the car until it is and remember that volume level.

 

I highly disagree with the last comment. The mechanics of the car stereo and the home stereo for RCA outputs are identical. There is no difference in input/ output for external devices between the two. Everything should work 'exactly' the same. Otherwise, your home audio sub would stay at the same volume regardless of the volume on your amplifier.

 

He is using TAPE output RCAs on his home stereo.
It's not volume controlled. It's at a preset voltage.

All that RCA connection is for, is to pass audio out of the receiver to the tape deck, so it can be recorded onto tape. That's what tape output RCAs are for.

Somewhat similar to a pass-thru on an amp. All it does it pass on the signal to another device, without modifying it.

It has nothing to do with subwoofer or speaker volume.