Nano connecting to stereo?

[eddie2006]

Afternoon all,

I have a lead I use to connect my powerbook to my stereo amp - the jack also fits in to the headphone socket on the ipod nano, but I am concerned that the output might break it (or something)...

Is it safe, or should I not connect the nano and the amp?

thanks, Ed

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

It's safe. I use a mini-din to RCA at home, and a min-din to mini-din in my car. Works great.

 

[eddie2006]

great! thank you for the help - dumb question for you though, whats a mini-din?

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Mini-din is the 1/8" stereo headphone jack that the iPod and many other headphone-based devices use.

I don't know for sure or not whether it's called a "mini-din" or not, but I've been calling it that for 10 years or more, so I have to have picked it up somewhere!

It's just another way of saying "that small headphone plug."

 

[fryke]

I think it's the minijack.

 

[limike28]

mini-din is an older audophile term. Comes from the fact that the 1/8" jack is a DIN standard (I forget the exact number). DIN is the Deutsches Institut für Normung. It's a standards orginization similar to ISO or VESA.