What Ipod Aux Cable do you recommend?

[GoingUp]

I want to hook my 3G Nano to my car stereo's Aux input.

I've seen two kinds of cables, one thats just a 3.5mm regular audio cable that plugs into the headphone jack, and one that plugs into the dock connector on the bottom.

Is there a difference between the two? Will one give me better sound?

 

[thecoolnessrune]

The sound quality is the same. The difference is that the dock port can transmit data for song title, artist, current time in the song, song up next, previous song, almost capable of reproducing anything you can see on your iPod including controlling it and charging it.

The limitation is you have to have a head unit that can accept the iPod's data port. You want to use the data port type cable though still as the audio output there acts as a Line-Out rather than a headphone jack, which is much better for getting accurate sound. Though you can always use a 3.5mm audio cable and turn the volume to max, it's still not the same thing.

 

[onlyCOpunk]

What head unit do you have.

If you just use a 3.5 jack then you have to make sure the sound is the appropriate level AND choose your music on your ipod.

If you use the dock connector you don't have to adjust any audio levels and in most cases the iPod can be controlled from the stereo.

Get the latter, route the cable to your glove box and you never have to think about having your music with you ever again.

 

[Phynaz]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
You want to use the data port type cable though still as the audio output there acts as a Line-Out rather than a headphone jack, which is much better for getting accurate sound. Though you can always use a 3.5mm audio cable and turn the volume to max, it's still not the same thing.

This is not true for current gen iPods.

For current (and last) generation iPods the audio out from the dock connector was changed from line out to headphone out. This was done due to the large number of complaints Apple received about not being able to control the volume of a docked iPod from the iPod itself.