Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo ipod line out to rca

I am looking for this type of product but can't seem to find it on monoprice. Has anyone seen this on monoprice?

http://www.amazon.com/Cables-4-Feet-Stereo-Connector-Cable/dp/B000JG3WBY/ref=pd_sim_e_1

I would rather get a monoprice cable than some random off brand one. Unless someone can suggest a good and inexpensive alternative for this particular cable.

- Nick

That's pretty awesome, but I've never seen anything like it.

That's actually a decent price. I have one that goes to a 3.5mm connector (headphone jack) for the car. It cost me $20.

That is a good price. The one I had made for my Creative cost me $45. It had to be hand made because no such product is available for the Creative.

This is a pretty good price for what it is. I guess that I am a little bit spoiled by monoprice though. They make very beefy cables and usually around the same price (or cheaper) than the off-brand cables.

- Nick

Nick,

Does it have to have the dock connector for your application? If not, these are what I use.

66 cents each... I have about 10 of them at home for various uses (laptop headphone out to Denon, camcorder audio out to denon, iPod out to various receivers all over my house).

I think this should work for what you have in mind... the only difference between connecting from the dock to the receiver via RCA and the headphone jack to receiver via RCA is that volume controls on the iPod do impact the volume over your system when plugged into the headphone jack. The iPod volume control does not have any effect when plugged in through the dock plug.

Jason

Hi Jason,

And, according to my engineering colleague at Axiom, the output from the iPod dock is at a lower level than that obtainable from the headphone jack.

Regards,
Alan

Someone needs to invent an inline amp (battery powered) that ups the juice from a headphone jack just enough to power receivers or a car deck. Yes, I know that's already invented, but I'd like to see one small enough to conveniently hang without bulk or weight for application in a car. I have to max out the volume on my Zune to feed the deck in my Jeep. Then of course, I forget what it's at and in it's cranked when I plug the earphones back in.

I have this http://www.boostaroo.com/store_detail.php4?id=13 to power 300Ohm headphones with my iPod and it works very well (otherwise 300Ohm sounds like a flatline of dynamic compression).

The only problems is that it uses AAAA batteries. I have not found rechargeable ones so it is tad annoying. I have not yet depleted the first set so I cannot tell you how they last.

With this small thingy, my Sennheiser PXC250 and even my HD650 sound like if they were plugged into my receiver.

Jason,

I tryed one of these headphone jack outputs in my car through the aux-in and wasn't very happy with it. I have to nearly turn the volume on the ipod to maximum so that it is at the same level as the cd player. I think that this will be introducing some noise into the system by doing this, but I am not sure. If I keep the volume on the ipod at less than half then I have to turn the volume on the car stereo up so loud that I have noise from the amp. Not to mention that sometimes I unhook the car jack and hook up my headphones and get blasted away. I think that the dock connector is the best (and most audiophile) way to hook up the ipod. I am looking into getting a similar ipod connector for my car stereo but it costs about $150. It also charges the battery and will allow me to skip through the songs in five play lists though the cd changer controls on the car stereo.

- Nick