(ONE) 3.5mm female to (TWO) 3.5mm male not working?

[Codi Bezouka-Smith]

Recently I purchased the AT-M30X headphones from Amazon (which isn't the issue) so that I could stream from a 2nd PC my gaming on Twitch. It works perfect the headphones itself but I wanted to hear both my gaming PC's audio and streaming PC's audio at the same time.

What I figured would work which it kind of did in a way but not completely is the splitter(s) that I just purchased:
- 1X one 3.5mm female to two 3.5mm male

- 2X one 3.5mm female to one 3.5mm male

So I had each of these cables running to a separate PC to get audio from both of them into the one pair of headphones. When trying this out I seemed to get audio in one computer just fine (the streaming PC) but in the gaming PC I couldn't get ANYTHING other then static. When I tried to play music from my Spotify playlist, again nothing.

 

[Alabalcho]

What your first cable is doing - it connects directly headphones' output of the PC1 to the headphones' output of PC2. You're lucky you did not damage anything.

What you need is "headphones mixer" (ur multi-channel headphones amplifier) - a box where both outputs get mixed, and output to the headphones. This box could be as simple as four resistors, or as complex as headphone amp.

 

[hang-the-9]

Get 3 of these http/www.zzounds.com/item--HOSGHP105?siid=173445 and this http/www.zzounds.com/item--BEHMX400?siid=38044&-5JO0oMsCFQJZhgodjmYBzQ= Connect the two computer outputs to one of the 4 inputs, and the headphones to the output.

That way not only will you get the right tool for the job but you have a way of mixing how loud you have each computer to be easily.