Back when I had a dock connector on my ipod I was able to plug it in to my stereo jack in my car. With my iphone 5 I could not find a lightning to stereo, so I just got the dock to lightning adapter and was using that with my legacy cable. Now after its been a while, so they make such a thing? I still can't seem to find one as I'd like to get ride of the extra adapter if I can.