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Connect to Stereo Receiver??

Feb 4, 2005 9:06PM PST

Do any of the portable MP3 players connect directly to a stereo receiver - through stereo RCA cables - or any other way? Thanks

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How to connect an mp3 player (or anything) to a stereo
Feb 4, 2005 10:13PM PST

There is a very common cable you can buy that has a mini-headphone jack at one end and a pair of red and white rca jacks at the other end. Plug the rca jacks into an available input on your stereo and the mini headphone end into the headphone jack on your mp3 player and you are there.

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Plugs vs. Jacks
Jan 26, 2009 3:19AM PST

I'm sure hockeyguy meant to say that "there is a very common cable you can buy that has a mini-headphone *plug* at one end and a pair of red and white rca *plugs* at the other end. Plug the rca *plug*s into an available input on your stereo and the mini headphone *plug* into the headphone jack on your mp3 player and you are there."

Plugs are male. Jacks are female.

See: "Birds and Bees (Plugs vs. Jacks)"

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/LANs/cabling-faq/section-9.html

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Pedant's Revolt
Jan 26, 2009 5:31AM PST

Where I come from (where they invented English, allegedly) you can have jack plugs and jack sockets. Only the socket is clearly female.

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(NT) Haha, Now I know why I always use the word...connectors.
Jan 26, 2009 11:25AM PST