Hooking iPod directly to car speakers

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Hooking iPod directly to car speakers

Please note firstly I wish to connect the ipod to my car speakers/subwoofer WITHOUT using a cd player. The deck in my car was stolen and I am wondering if there is a way to hook it up by use of an adaptor (or two or three for that matter) I have a 4 channel amp connected to my front and rear speakers and a 2 channel amp bridged for the subwoofer. Would there be a way to hook my ipod up to the RCA cables or something? There are 3 pairs so I'm assuming I would need a few adaptors of some kind. Has anyone done this before or know if it's even possible? Any input is greatly appreciated 🙂

Self Built PC, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Feb 6, 2009 3:01 PM

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iPodman2

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Feb 6, 2009 3:18 PM in response to Stuntman Dan

YES!!
This is possible!
You could go to bestbuy and get an adapter.
Here is the link to get one. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8679753&st=Carstereo+set+foripod&type=product&id=1197678618681
Sorry, it will cost a bit of money.

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Stuntman Dan Author

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Feb 6, 2009 3:57 PM in response to iPodman2

Oh ok I see so in order to hook up my ipod touch to my car speakers without the use of a deck I have to buy a deck? Interesting...

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Feb 6, 2009 3:57 PM in response to iPodman2

Hmm, that "adapter" looks an awful lot like a CD deck ...

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Stuntman Dan Author

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Feb 6, 2009 4:06 PM in response to Stuntman Dan

Basically what I was thinking of would be something along the lines of a 3.5mm audio jack for the ipod on one end, with 3 sets of RCA female ends on the other side... Although I really have no idea if something like that exists, but there should be some way to do this, right?

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Feb 6, 2009 5:49 PM in response to Stuntman Dan

They do make "Y" RCA cables, i.e. a female RCA splitting off to two male RCA jacks. Cascade two of those off of each end of a 3.5mm to RCA cable, then you'll have three RCA jacks per channel coming off your iPod. However, I don't know how well that would work -- the iPod may not have enough drive level to be split three ways. You might have better results coming off the dock connector rather than the headphone jack.

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Danny09

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Feb 6, 2009 8:19 PM in response to Stuntman Dan

This might be good you might want something similar though, not this exact thing.

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Stuntman Dan Author

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Feb 6, 2009 8:23 PM in response to Danny09

Hmm this might take some engineering but it should work. Thanks for the input everyone, I'll see what I can do 🙂

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