Hey all random question. My dad has a receiver that does not have an auxiliary input jack, it does have optical however. We tried going from 3.5mm to left-right in terms of a cable, but that only does 2 speakers (in a 7.1 setup). I know a mac or airport express can convert the signal from 3.5mm analog to digital for an optical cable (which I know I can get), but can an iPod do the same?
The Airport Express and certain Macs have a hybrid 3.5mm miniplug optical/standard jack. They're not doing any kind of converting. iPods don't have this kind of port.
Ok so in order to get the full channel of sound then I'll have to use an airport express to the optical then. Thanks!
Well what it's probably doing is just playing the two channels of audio through the right and left speakers. If you connect your Airport Express via optical it's still only going to be delivering two channels of audio, it will just be a digital signal instead of an analog one. What you need to figure out is how to kick your receiver in to expanding the stereo signal across all the speakers. On mine, this setting is called 5.1 stereo. It plays the right channel from the FR and RR speaker, left in FL and RL speakers, and a mix through the center channel.
I changed the speaker layout to go to the 7 speakers, but it still seems to be playing only out of the center and the front right speaker. Is there a way to get the sound to cross to the other speakers now?
So I have a new inquiry. I found a dock that I can get from sony that goes from some random proprietary port (DMP) to the 30 pin. http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665701056 That's the dock, now does anyone have any experience to know if THAT will go through all 7 speakers?
