Running system off an Ipod?

[newtothis86 10+ year member]

I fried the ground loop in my HU and while its in for repair I will put the factory deck back in but they say it could be gone 4-6 weeks. I have the rear speakers running off deck power but my fronts and sub is off the amp. Rather than screw with this wiring, I was thinking I could just hook up a set of female RCAs to my Ipod if I get 3.5 mm headphone jack, and two female RCAs could I make an adapter to plug the ipod into the amp?

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[Gebrochen 10+ year member]

Yes. Start with gains low and volume low.

 

[newtothis86 10+ year member]

more out of general curiosity than anything, can I ask why you recommend they be set on low?

 

[GreenBook 10+ year member]

Most likely becuase there is no way to know how much voltage is gonna get sent through the rca's; you could end up damaging something.

 

[scoob8000 10+ year member]

Yeah, good idea to start low, but I think you'll end up turning the gain up on the amp pretty high. I've tried this before to test amps, but the ipod doesn't quite put out enough power..

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

I have done it before in my sis car I was using it for work hour and a half drive. And the head unit was out for repair so I did what you are going to do just use volume up SLOWLY!

 

[Cpyder 10+ year member]

I've done it to troubleshoot my amp and speakers. Use a y adapter like this: http://www.diguniverse.com/CABLES-AND-CONNECTORS/AUDIO-VIDEO-ACCESSORIES/TRPP314012.html. You can get them at radio shack for like 4 dollars.

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

this is how i test stuff in my garage - the make an rca adapter to do that. You dont have to trun the gains down and all because the ipod doesnt send enough ot damage anything.

 

[qkassidyw 10+ year member]

This is what I did when I was deciding which headunit I wanted to switch to and had already sold my other one.

I put the four channel RCA's on the left channel of the y adapter and the SUB RCA's on the right channel of the y adapter. This kept everything balanced. My original deck had 2V pre outs and I had to turn the gain up a little to match the output of the iPOD, so you should be good.

I also set the iPod volume up to 3/4 to minimize distortion, also I set the EQ to flat and it sounded great.

EDIT: I had to use 4 splitters (2 Femaele to 1 Male) to get all 6 rca's down to 2 and a y-adapter.