how can i connect my ipod to my stereo amp?

Answer 1

Hi there,

You have three options.

1) Get a radio tranmistter that plugs into the headphone output of your ipod (or, if it's a nano, into the dock/usb connection on the iPod.

You can then transmit (only in a a range of a couple of meters) across either a fixed, or user set radio frequency, tune your FM radio into the frequency, and it'll come out through the speakers.

2) By far the easiest way it to buy a lead that goes from the iPod to the stereo. Typically, this will mean a lead with one end like the connector on the end of your headphones, and the other end will be a pair of 'phono' plugs (if you're from the US, you'll know these as RCA plugs).

Other cables are out there that have one end as the dock connector, and the other end as 2 Phono plugs.

Before you buy the cable though, check the back of your amp. It should have these phono inputs on it - but in case it doesn't, just have a quick check.

You also need to make sure you've got a spare place to plug it in. If you only have one input on the back of the amp, and it's already taken up with a TV input or something, you'll have to work out a way to swap over the cables when you want to listen to either input.

A little switch is all it'll take, but hopefully you'll have a spare input on the back.

3) Get a tape adaptor. This is the lo-rent version. It's a tape that you put into your tape player that has cable coming out of it that you plug into the headphone output of the iPod. Put the tape in, press play, set the amp to 'tape' and you will hear the ipod through your amp.

Hope this helped.

Answer 2

Buy a lead from Tesco's £1.99.. its a headphone to RCA plug (RED/WHITE) Lead and connect it to your amplifier dont forget to turn ipod volume up.. easy peasy.