My ideal set of headphones

[xiphias]

Now that I have a smartphone, I actually have a reason to start thinking about headphones and microphones and stuff like that.

I've decided that my absolutely ideal set would be over-the-ear headphones with some openness, so I could still hear the world around me, but nonetheless, with decent-ish stereo sound for listening to music. And I found a set of headphones that more-or-less matches that.

And I also decided that I want a throat mike. And I found one of those, too.

But not together.

It ought to be possible to buy both of these, and solder them together or something, right? Of course, I don't have the skills to do so . . .

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[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Possibly.

And what kind of smartphone? If it's an iPhone or uses the same sort of plug, you could, conceivably, take the weird 4-conductor 1/8" headphone plug the iPhone uses, cut the ends off of your headphones and microphone, and attach them to that 1/8" plug. There's some kind of semi-active-looking electronics in the headphone/microphone thing that comes with the iPhone, I think, which is why the any-headphones-on-an-iPhone adapters tend to look like this:

https://store.griffintechnology.com/smarttalk

Here's a reference: http://geekspeak.org/blog/2008/08/12/iphone-headset-plug

So, yeah. It should be possible, even without the active electronicky bits. Here's the actual plug you'd need, although that looks seriously annoying to solder on since the contacts are super-teensy.

Also, this is assuming that your throat mike isn't powered and, in fact, works just like a normal microphone. What kind of microphone is it? I haven't looked around, but I have some passing interest in laryngophones, as I have this little project where I'm attempting to make this:



...usable on computers and stuff. I have the headphones working, but I suspect I'm going to have to replace the laryngophones since I can't figure out how they're supposed to be hooked up and I'm not likely to find any references to mid-50's Soviet tank electronics basically anywhere outside of warehouses in Moscow, and even then I wouldn't be able to read them...