I want to use some older shelf speakers from a surround sound system I have to play my iPod through. I stripped the red and black wires from the speaker boxes and just crimped them to the back of a 3.5 mini plug for a check and it when connected to the output on top of my iPod it plays fine... is there anything I am missing? Will this mess up my speakers or iPod? Can I just clean up the wiring and use it as I have it?
yo can blow out the pre-amp inside the ipod. you need an amplifier to drive those speakers. For sure it seems to work fine now, but if you use a lot, you can mess your ipod