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Other source for Mini-Optical for APX?
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Apple charges such a premium for cables, etc. ($39 iPod dock, anybody???). Does anyone know where one can find an inexpensive mini-digital optical toslink cable like the one Apple offers in the Airport Express Stereo Connection kit? I don't need the other cables, so why shell out the extra cash? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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12" AlBook • 15" Albook • G4 Cube • iSight • Original iPod • PB 100 • Newton 110 • Quicktake 100
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"Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny." -HJS
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Go to any Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, Radio Shack, etc. They will all have them, because it's a standard part used commonly on portable MiniDisc players.
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Originally posted by tooki:
Go to any Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, Radio Shack, etc. They will all have them, because it's a standard part used commonly on portable MiniDisc players.
tooki
Radio Shack guy was clueless. But the fact that it's for MiniDisc players suggests that in fact it's Toslink on one end and "optical mini" on the other. Not 1/8" phono mini. My question is how does Airport Express accomodate "optical mini" and 1/8" phono mini in the same jack? It's either a big feat of engineering or I'm not understanding things correctly.
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Originally posted by ericwass:
Radio Shack guy was clueless. But the fact that it's for MiniDisc players suggests that in fact it's Toslink on one end and "optical mini" on the other. Not 1/8" phono mini. My question is how does Airport Express accomodate "optical mini" and 1/8" phono mini in the same jack? It's either a big feat of engineering or I'm not understanding things correctly.
It is a very cool port, it supports both. I bought a Toslink to 1/8" digital mini at Radio Shack, $3. I re-used one of the many standard Toslink-ended optical cables I have lying around.
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It's the same as the MiniDisc units do: it's a combination socket.
It has the 3 electrical contacts for the analog, plus an LED at the end. The optical plug is longer than the analog, and activates a small switch inside the socket, telling the device that the optical plug, rather than analog, has been inserted, and to switch the output mode from the analog contacts to the digital LED.
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Does it accept the same audio connector as the iPod dock? Non-optical of course. I have a dock connected to the stereo via audio cable, just wondering if I can take that same cable and plug it into the AE instead.
Or do I need to make a quick run to the Shack?
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