I have several usb cables. One cable is from a computer mouse and the other is from a usb extension cord.
Can these cables be an acceptable replacement for audio cable?
What inexpensive cable options would you recommend for a replacement?
Professional audio engineer. What matters is the capacitance and ohmage of the cable. USB cable tends to be really bad on that front but if it’s a short run, the worst that you’ll have is some diminished highs and some hiss.
Are you just talking about using a usb cable that came with a mouse to plug in a USB speaker?
Headphones
If they’re usb yeah basically every USB cable is the same. Just plug whatever cable in and see if there’s any issue
I’m not an expert, but there’s a huge difference between USB cables. Requirements for a mouse are pretty low, so it could be a cheap cable poorly shielded and thin wires.
A good USB cable however should be fine, as it’s shielded from full speed and above.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_communications
I’m guessing that everything above low speed is OK. But I would avoid low speed, and that could include your mouse cable, but you can see when you cut it, whether it’s shielded or not.
I have, unlike the other comment, no idea what you want/can do or what “audio cable” you mean. But the answer is yes, both as in using the wire with and without the original USB connections. You can use essentially any wir for audio, or is essentially DC, so unlike wires that carry information (USB, HDMI, …) there is no need for shielding etc
You could but it would be an utter pain in the ass and might not work 100% as it was before it broke because the thickness of the wires are different and USB isn’t just 1. It’s 3 and they’re so thin, you’d need to braid them together.
If the plug broke, you couldn’t replace the audio’s connector with a USB connector.
Unless the audio device is also USB. Then it shouldn’t be much issue; though they may not be color coded with the insulation on the inside.
USB cables have four conductors and shielding.
Is it 4? 🤔 It’s been forever since I’ve opened one up and could have sworn it was 3 because I remember the Xbox controller had 4, but one of them wasn’t needed to slap a USB connector on it and use it with the PC. Maybe it had 5…
I don’t know about the XBox controllers, but USB 1 & 2 use four conductors: Vcc (+5V), Ground, D+, and D-.
The OG Xbox has five wires for the controller, I think the fifth was for like a light gun sorta thing. USB is four wires minimum, more for USB 3+.
I’m confused, what type of audio cable are you trying to to replace? Afaik there is little difference between USB cables other than their version number
For headphones
3.5mm jack?
Yes
Oh yeah you’re fine then. If you notice a difference in audio quality maybe try becoming a composer because you definitely have the ear for it.
Just make sure it’s the correct USB version (like 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 etc idk how far they go)
Well at the end of the day it’s just all wire, a knife and a soldering iron you can change them out however you like. But I’m assuming that’s not what you meant.
There are adapters, startech makes a bunch of different kinds. So you could use a USB adapter over the USB extension cable.
Historically people would use stereo wire for stuff like that.
