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by dfc 5099 days ago
Why does the title include "on a single wire"?

The current stackexchange question does not use the phrase "single wire" and more importantly nothing about your headphones will work with a single wire.

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> The current stackexchange question does not use the phrase "single wire" and more importantly nothing about your headphones will work with a single wire.

Its pretty common in the electronics world to not count the ground as a wire in a communication protocol, only wires carrying data are counted. For example the "1-Wire" inter-IC bus create by Maxim.

It's a single additional wire.