iPod - Hooking Up to a Hi-Fi

The iPod does an exquisite job of putting your music range in your pocket. But when you want to listen at home, a pair of earphones is not ideal. Neither, for that matter, are tinny petite computer speakers. There are varied special iPod-speaker options available, though the ideal explication is to hook up your iPod, your computer, or both, to a decent hi-fi - something that can be done in a amount of ways. Also the confident advantages in sound quality, marrying your computer and hi-fi also allows you to get music from vinyl, cassette and radio into your iTunes Library and onto your iPod.

Playing straight through a hi-fi

To get the sound from your Pod or computer into your hi-fi, the latter should ideally have an ready line-in channel - look on the back for an unused pair of red and white Rca sockets. They may be labelled "Aux" or Line-in", though any input other than Phono (which will have a built-in preamp) should be fine.

iPod - Hooking Up to a Hi-Fi

If your hi-fi doesn't have a line-in, but it does have a radio, you could consider an Fm transmitter (have a quest for these there are loads available). If it does have a line-in, you have a amount of options...

Connection with cables

Computer to hi-fi

Nearly all computers have a line-out and/or headphone capabilities - regularly in the form of a singular 3.5mm "minijack" socket. So if your computer and stereo share a desk or are only a few feet apart, you can honestly pick up an Rca-to-minijack cable and run it level from the computer to the hi-fi's line in. (Some computers have Rca line-outs as well as a minijack, in which case you can use a approved Rca-to-Rca cable.)

When buying a cable, check all the plugs are "male" not "female" (they probably will be) and, if you can, spend a petite extra to get gold-plated jacks - they deliver a far cleaner sound.

If your computer and hi-fi are supplementary apart or in different rooms, you could buy a long cable and get the drill out, but you might prefer to study Airport Express (do a quest for this).

iPod to hi-fi

One problem with running your computer straight through your hi-fi is that you need to have your computer on to hear anything, which can be a pain if your Mac Minijack cable between your hi-fi's line-in and your Pod's headphone socket or, much better, the "Line Out" on the back of the Dock. The Dock explication can be made all the more suitable when combined with a wireless remote control.

Connecting wirelessly

AirTunes

If your hi-fi has a line-in socket, but you don't want to be petite by cables - perhaps you have a laptop or your computer is in a different room from your stereo - study Apple AirPort Express wireless base center with its so-called AirTunes feature.

Attach one of these to a power point near to your hi-fi and connect it to the stereo with a approved Rca-to-minijack cable. Then, any computer with Wi-Fi capability - known as AirPort on a Mac Proved internal, external or Pcmcia device. Once everything's in place, you can naturally open iTunes Preferences and check "Look for remote speakers associated with AirTunes" in the Audio tab. Your hi-fi will automatically appear in a dropdown menu on the bottom of the iTunes window.

AirPort Express can also beam an Internet relationship colse to your house, and allow you to connect to printers wirelessly.

Fm transmitters

An Fm transmitter plugs into the headphone socket on you iPod (many will also plug into a computer) and beams the sound colse to the room as an Fm radio signal. Then your stereo can tune in just as it would any other radio station. Though you won't get Cd fidelity and your stereo or iPod will need to be relatively close to your radio, this is a very suitable solution, allowing you to walk colse to the house zapping music from your iPod to any colse to radio. It's also the only easy way to connect to a hi-fi that lacks a line-in socket. This can also be used in the car!

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