Headphone jack of phone connected to stereo amp AUX - too quiet

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Hi all,

This is the situation: I often play music from my Sony Xperia SP phone or Ipad 2 via the AUX 1 channel of my Marantz PM7000 stereo amplifier. I do this through a 3,5mm to RCA cable. I noticed, though, that playback volume is not nearly as loud as through my cd player connected to the CD channel of the amplifier. I understand this has to do with the headphone jack voltage being lower.

How can I solve this? I have a HQ microphone/phono amplifier, will this, in microphone setting, work to amplify the headphone jack signal of my phone to the aux input? If not, do I need another stereo preamp? Or maybe a headphone preamp will do the trick, for example the fiio e6?

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!

 

[ID.]

Why not just turn up the amp's volume? Don't be scared. That's what that extra room on the dial is for : lower voltage sources.

That and be sure to have your portable device's volume turned to max.

 

[ChrisIRL]

I use an Arcam Dock for my ipad. You bypass the ipads amp and dac and get full output this way. Sounds much better too. You could try a bluetooth receiver too, again the arcam rblink mini gives very nice results. Fiio do a range of cables that are ipad 30pin to 3.5mm jack. These effectively act much like a dock giving you better quality direct output from your ipad.

 

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Hmm didn't think about a bluetooth receiver, but that may be a good option - will look further into this.

 

[ChrisIRL]

One of these for the ipad

http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiiO-Line-Dock-Cable-iPhone/dp/B004M172G8/ref=sr_1_15

They might have some similar for your sony. As mentioned a bluetooth receiver would be a good option to have easy connectivity for both devices rather than swapping cables or docks.