ipod into preamp OK?

Is it safe to plug an ipod into an output of my preamp without using a docking station?

fromunda09-13-2009 5:41am

mjcmt Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 479 posts 09-29-2009 at 12:34am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Metralla and Sfar, I was ready to post a question and I think you may have begun to answer my question. Can you clarify for me. I want to take my CD collection and put them on my iMac computer which is in another room. Then I will down load the CDs from my iMac to an iPod Classic (yet to purchase) to use as my only source feeding a tube power amp and speakers that are in different room. Will this give me respectable sound (as say a $500 CD player)? Will the volume control on the iPod be able to control the output volume through a cable or dock feeding my power amp?
gdoodle Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 113 posts 09-29-2009 at 04:34am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Use the ipod "lineout" not the headphone output. You can get to line out signal froma dock or from a cable that goes rom the apple 30? pin connector (these are really hard to find - I made my own). The headphone output is the wrong impedence - will be a very low signal and someone distorted.
mjcmt Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 479 posts 09-29-2009 at 11:44am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Gdoodle, If I find the 30 pin cable or use a dock will I have volume control so I don't have to use a preamp w/ my tube power amp?