DIY iPad Tricks and Tips for Integrating into Your Home Stereo System
If you are a DIY home stereo fanatic, here are some great tips to try in your home stereo environment to bring your iPad into the mix with your current equipment. Some tips are just basic ideas to incorporate your iPad, and others include the use of internet radio and other applications to enhance your DIY home stereo experience. Enjoy!
Optimize Your Sound Experience
1) Connect your iPad into your home stereo receiver to include it in the mix. Moreover, it’s a simple idea, and it’s a cool way to enjoy “big sound” with your iPad, rather than just listen from the tablet. Simply connect your iPad’s sound out port (3.5mm earphone outlet) via a 3.5mm to RCA adapter/cord to your theater sound or receiver and bring it into your surround sound system with the appropriate external input. Test it out by playing a song from your iPad. You should hear the over your entire system for “big” iPad sound!
2) Download the “Pandora” app for internet radio and “broadcast” the sound into your stereo system as well. This will allow you to include the cool technology of internet radio and music feeds from your iPad into your big system for big stereo sound.
3) Use a wireless transmitter for short wave broadcasting! You can purchase a wireless FM transmitter which will allow you to “broadcast your sound” over your stereo with no wires! Simply find a “non-existent” FM frequency, such as 88.1 on your FM radio, plug in the wireless transmitter to your iPad and hear the sound over your radio too. This even works in the car! Warning! As you pass other motorists, they may actually be able to pick up your broadcast if they happen to be on the same frequency, so make it some good music, OK?!
4) Create a “surround sound” environment. You can purchase extra speakers and a receiver (if you don’t already have one) to broadcast your iPad music throughout your house. Place small speakers on your walls, larger speakers in the back, and speaker pods throughout other areas where you want music to come through. Some people even enjoy putting them around their pool or outside furniture to enjoy sound anywhere.
5) Integrate other external equipment, such as karaoke machines or mp3 players so you can hear them all in “big sound” through your entire sound system. For a complete DIY home stereo experience, use the following ideas to pull it all together. Your iPad can be more than just a tablet that’s mobile which you take with you. It can be like a mechanical DJ that entertains you in 100% surround sound both at home and “on-the-go!”
Finally, in addition to the above tips, go to the Apple Store and download one of the virtual DJ apps. This will add even more functionality with your iPad for a full home stereo experience.
