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damn mini-stereo audio plug problems...
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i seem to have a problem getting my computer speakers to work with my mac. the issues seems to be that my speakers use the normal size stereo plug, while my imac obviously uses a mini-stereo plug. i bought a little radio shack adapter so i could use them, however, this seems to result in some error where my mac says:
"the device plugged into the apple speaker mini-jack cannot be recognized. remove the plug from the jack. then plug it back in and make sure that it is fully inserted."
it will ultimately play music, but it gets jacked up with a bunch of distortion and constantly fluctuating bass/treble/sound quality.
i made sure that the adapter is the proper kind of "stereo" adapter. any idea on what i need to do to get this to work? any help is appreciated.
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a standard stereo miniplug to 2 rca (or 1/4") plugs should work with any POWERED speakers...
there may be a problem with your audio out port on the mac (i should know, i just replaced the soundboard on my powerbook)
try headphones for example, see if the problem persists...
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Originally posted by fisherKing:
a standard stereo miniplug to 2 rca (or 1/4") plugs should work with any POWERED speakers...
there may be a problem with your audio out port on the mac (i should know, i just replaced the soundboard on my powerbook)
try headphones for example, see if the problem persists...
hold on there,fisherking. look what phOust said:
the issues seems to be that my speakers use the normal size stereo plug, while my imac obviously uses a mini-stereo plug. i bought a little radio shack adapter so i could use them, however, this seems to result in some error where my mac says:
"the device plugged into the apple speaker mini-jack cannot be recognized. remove the plug from the jack. then plug it back in and make sure that it is fully inserted."
he's got an iMac, and he gets an error when he plugs into the speaker jack. that means he's got an FP iMac, that has the apple speaker jack. you can't just plug any old speaker, adapter or not, into this jack. this jack is meant for apple pro speakers (the round ones); it outputs an amplified signals to those specific speakers.
i think i'm right in this speaker jack assumption, because if this was a normal line out jack, there's no way an error message would come up when plugging into it. it would be a straight analog signal coming out, with no need for the computer to keep track of what's plugging into it.
phOust, try plugging your speakers into the headphone jack. also, is the speaker jack on your iMac smaller or larger than the plug on your speakers? you say that your speakers have 'normal size' stereo plugs. i'm guessing that your speakers have 1/8" plugs, while the iMac speaker jack is 3/32". apple picked this size i guess so people wouldn't try to plug regular speakers (with the larger plug) into the pro speaker jack.
tr
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Originally posted by tr:
hold on there,fisherking. look what phOust said:
he's got an iMac, and he gets an error when he plugs into the speaker jack. that means he's got an FP iMac, that has the apple speaker jack. you can't just plug any old speaker, adapter or not, into this jack. this jack is meant for apple pro speakers (the round ones); it outputs an amplified signals to those specific speakers.
i think i'm right in this speaker jack assumption, because if this was a normal line out jack, there's no way an error message would come up when plugging into it. it would be a straight analog signal coming out, with no need for the computer to keep track of what's plugging into it.
phOust, try plugging your speakers into the headphone jack. also, is the speaker jack on your iMac smaller or larger than the plug on your speakers? you say that your speakers have 'normal size' stereo plugs. i'm guessing that your speakers have 1/8" plugs, while the iMac speaker jack is 3/32". apple picked this size i guess so people wouldn't try to plug regular speakers (with the larger plug) into the pro speaker jack.
tr
you rule! thanks... i feel pretty stupid now, but at least the speakers are working. guess i just assumed that the pro speaker jack was *the* speaker jack.... talk about lame-ass maneuvers 
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