Connecting to a home stereo

I connected my 5th generation ipod to my home stereo aux jacks with a monster icable. There is no sound when the ipod is playing, but there is still sound when I listen to the ipod with headphones. How can I fix this?

Do you have the cable connect to the in audio sockets and not the out sockets of your stereo

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I'm afraid that I really have no idea of what I'm doing here....this is my situation -
I have a G5 iMac in my home office connected via Airport Express to a DSL modem (and via USB to a printer on my desk). I also have a Sony VAIO notebook (Windows XP Pro SP2) with a Belkin 802.11g wireless notebook network card that I have connected wirelessly so it can access both the printer and my ADSL modem. No problems to date with that.
I have a second Airport Express downstairs (ground floor) in the living room (my home office is on the first floor) that I have used to extend the wireless signal so my husband can connect his Mac mini and 12 inch Powerbook to the ADSL modem. His studio is across the courtyard from the living room on top of the garage (about 7 - 8 metres from the Airport Express in the living room). This works, too.
My problem arises because I have tried to connect my home stereo in the living room to 'airtunes' on my G5 iMac by using a 'home stereo cable' that I bought from my local Apple dealer. It has a 3.5mm connector on one end and two RCA connectors on the other end. (I was told by my local Apple dealer that this would be 'dead easy').
I plugged the 3.5mm connector into the Airport Express in the living room and connected the RCA connectors to my tuner/amplifier (it is an old Nakamichi RE-3). Nothing happens at all. Nothing shows up in iTunes (I'm running iTunes 6). My Apple shop said 'just plug into the Aux RCA connectors and then set your stereo to AUX' - could the problem be that my Aux connectors also say /video? The input options on the front of the machine are CD, Aux/Video, Tuner, Cassette player.
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A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing..... :-(((
I did some reading of the Help files and discovered a couple of basic things -
1) I had to change Preferences in iTunes to look for remote speakers connected with Airtunes
2) I had to change System Preferences/Firewall setting to check the iTunes Music Sharing box
3) I had to remember to turn on the volume control for my stereo
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i already have a dock for my ipod... but looking for something that allows me to stream radio to the stereo
while the pc plays the same tune.
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thanks... i'm more looking for something to connect itunes to the stereo than an ipod. this would allow me to stream music from internet radio.
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I hooked the Nano up to my home and car receivers via: mini-cable > AV cable.
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• EQ(if you can call it that) is on "off".
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If you can ONLY use the speaker/receiver volume control, then it DOES regulate.
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Every time you buy Monster cables, an electrical engineer cries. Seriously, don't waste your money on their snake oil.
That said, they ought to work for this application. You shouldn't need a dock; that just gives you the same signal at a more convenient physical location.
The volume level of the ipod should be as high as possible without distorting the signal you hear out of the stereo.
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I hooked the Nano up to my home and car receivers via: mini-cable > AV cable.
AUDIO SOUNDS VERY MUFFLED:
• Its definitely not the quality of the mp3's.
• EQ(if you can call it that) is on "off".
• High volume, my home receiver turns off (power overload or something)
• Low volume, low output
Am I doing something wrong?
Do I need to buy a dock adapter to regulate power & output?
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Thanks for your reply.
That is how far I had gotten:
Audio sounds muffled,
even with any EQ or Volume setting on either receivers(home&car) and ipod. I tried all these variables.
I even got monster cables to make sure it had good connection.
Does a ipod dock regulate output?
Does anyone know?
You'll know this by whether you have to use the ipod or the speakers to turn up the volume.
If you can use either volume controls, then it DOESN"T regulate output.
If you can ONLY use the speaker/receiver volume control, then it DOES regulate.
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Gentlemen,
At the advice of a friend I recently purchased the iPod Universal Dock (w remote)to connect to my stereo. This was based on his claim (which I verified) that the dock sounded substantially better than the headphone out jack (using the Monster Cable interconnect). Unfortunately the new Universal dock (w/ s-video & remote capabilities) sounds worse than the iPod’s headphone jack. We did a lot of comparisons using the older generation doc and have identified that it’s my new dock that sounds like garbage.
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