IPOD not sounding good in my home stereo- HeLP NEEDED

Your not going to like this answer...

Sound distortion at high volume is somethign you will have to live with with a stero of the size you are talking about.

If you want to blast the speakers and maintain sound quality, you will need a system with higher wattage and larger speakers. This is a problem I encountered many years ago, and since then I have bought a 1000 watt amp, a 1000 watt subwoofer and several surround speakers.

I can now listen to my music at piercingly high volumes, with the house shaking, without noticable sound distortion.

When you turn up the volume to your speakers, you increase power flow to them. When this power flow goes higher than the speakers were weant to accomodate, you get distortion. A "no cost" solution is to turn down the bass and increase the treble. You'll get a higher pitch sound, which you could turn up higher without distortion, but it wont be as full.

Connecting two volume controlls together exasperates the situation because you get distortion from each one. This is why its not recomended you blast the iPod and Blast the speakers, and would also be a fator in the distortion you are getting.

You could adjust the sound with the EQ, but i'm assuming it won't do much. Try it, then post back.


kEat0n

You can also make sure you use a shielded cable. I got a lot of static when I tried connecting my iPod to my stereo, but once I got a ahielded cable (they're a lot thicker), the problem went away. Radio Shack's got 'em.

The answer is that, yes, getting a dock will help as you are getting line out signal and it will not be going through the headphones amplifier. You should be able to get a good sound quality through this and have the advantage of remote control. You do not need 1000W amplifiers to get reasonable sound - I too have a very powerful system but also have a number of cheaper systems. I can enjoy music on a cheap Sony radio cassette using my iPod although clearly it will not be as loud or go as deep as my audiophile system. On the whole, I would not use an iPod as a source in that case anyway!

Heres a good one http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=EF6 079DE&nplm=MA045G%2FB


kEat0n

"Do you know why the output is different through the earphone or dock output ??? Is there any technical explanation for this ??"

Yes, there is. It's because the headphone socket is drven by a small hedaphone amp that was never intended to supply a line out to a hi fi stereo. It's only inteded to drive low impedance headphones.

The correct way to connect to a home stereo is to use the line out socket on the universal dock.