I Need help with playing music through my reciver

[paulina008]

This will sound really noobish. I just realized that my parents have 12 inch subwoofers plugged into my Denon AVR 2802 receiver. How do I play music from my ipod or android through the receiver and subwoofers? I tried the Denon website and all of their ipod docks are for the newest models, but my model is from 2004.

 

[adk highlander]

Welcome to the forum.

There are many universal docks that will just plug into a free analog input on the receiver. Another even cheaper alternative is to get a Y-cable that will go from the 3.5mm headphone jack to a pair of analog plugs. Just plug the cable into the front inputs on the receiver and you are ready to go.

Dock example

or

Cable

 

[paulina008]

What is an analog plug? I only see one open hole on the front of my reciever

 

[adk highlander]

Sorry I thought that model had a front set of inputs.

Here is an image of the back of the receiver:

The analog inputs are the red/white inputs. One is for left and the other is for the right. You would choose a free one of these (like VCR 1) and then choose that source as the input on the front of the receiver to playback the iPod.

 

[paulina008]

Would an aux cable work? Or would any cables that came with beats headphones work?

 

[adk highlander]

Would an aux cable work? Or would any cables that came with beats headphones work?

Not sure what you mean by aux cable. Any cable with a 3.5mm headphone jack on one end and two (red/white) RCA analog plugs on the other end will work. I don't have or use beats headphones but I would not think they would come with this type of cable. Your local radioshak or best buy will have it in stock.

 

[agarwalro]

Any cable with a 3.5mm headphone jack on one end and two (red/white) RCA analog plugs on the other end will work....Your local radioshak or best buy will have it in stock.

+1. Something like this...

 

[mloew1]

I just bought a Gigaware dock from radio shack. It was $39. It is a nice unit, for my IPHONE, it charges and plays any Iphone or Ipod. It will also display your pics to your TV. It also has a remote and will access your Iphone menu. In my case we just upgraded our Iphones and our old ones still work fine so I use them for music only. I also like the fact that my Harmony one remote was compatible with the gigaware remote, so now my wife can just hit 1 button on the Harmony 1 and play her music. It will also switch tracks from the remote.