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Help finding correct RCA y cable

b brian

b brian

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I have been searching for the best y-cable for what I need to do, and am coming up short, so I wonder if I am using the wrong term.

I am attempting to find a male to male and female y cable.
I am going from pre-amp out to pre-amp in on my H/K 730, but need a split female to connect a cable to a mono block.

I am finding a piggyback which has 6 ft of cable to the other male RCA.

Is there a name or term for this cable other then y connector?
 
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If I understand correctly you want to pull the pre-out -> power-in clips fron the back of your amp and run signal from the pre-out to both the power-in and another (pair of) amplifier(s)

I think you will find you want three male connectors on your Y.
 
If I got this right, you want to go from one male RCA to a female RCA and a male RCA.

If this is so, go to Radio Shack and get a female RCA to female RCA adaptor. Put it on one of the male RCA's and there you go!
 
ruffian-correct
why three male's? unless one of the males is long enough to reach the mono block. I wasn't expecting to find something like that. I was expecting to use a standard male/male cable to get from the female on the Y to the mono block

joeESP9- I was hoping I could do it without using adapters
 
b brian said:
ruffian-correct
why three male's? unless one of the males is long enough to reach the mono block. I wasn't expecting to find something like that. I was expecting to use a standard male/male cable to get from the female on the Y to the mono block

joeESP9- I was hoping I could do it without using adapters
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Yes, three males if it has a really long tail is what I was thinking. (More like an 'h' possibly?) Sounds like a good DIY project.
 
You can use a female RCA to two male RCA's Y connector.
The way you connect the Y connector is not important.
The three legs in a Y connector are wired in parallel.
So, you can use it as a male RCA to a female RCA and a male RCA.

Just plug the two males into the input and output female RCA's on your gear. Plug a cable with male RCA to male RCA connectors into the female RCA connector and you are done.
 
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