Mac to Home Stereo Question

beez7777

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• May 17, 2003

• #1

ok, so my cousin wants to connect his iMac to his home stereo. I could have sworn apple used to sell a cable that allowed you to do this through RCA cables, but I can't find it anywhere on their webstore. I know that m-audio makes one that uses an optical cable, and so does h/k, but those are expensive and he doesn't want to spend a lot of money to do this. i know a lot of people here connect their macs to their home stereos, so any cheap suggestions?

 

baby duck monge

macrumors 68000

• May 17, 2003

• #2

i had mine hooked up with some cables i had that were meant to connect a discman to speakers. they plug into the side of the imac. i am now using them with my ibook.

 

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vniow

macrumors G4

• May 17, 2003

• #3

You don't need a special cable from Apple, just go to Radio Shack and fine an adaprer with a headphone jack at one end and two RCA jacks at the other, that's all you need. (alhough optical connections are better)

 

alset

macrumors 65816

• May 17, 2003

• #4

Originally posted by vniow
You don't need a special cable from Apple, just go to Radio Shack and fine an adaprer with a headphone jack at one end and two RCA jacks at the other, that's all you need. (alhough optical connections are better)

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Or, you can just splice some cables. That's how I did it the first time. RFI is an issue if you don't perform a clean splice.

Dan