Hi all,
I'm Bod from Bristol. First post on here, just this week I made my first foray into Hifi, retired my eight year old £20 dixons cd player and got myself a Denon DM39 with Cambridge Audio S30s. Based on reviews and forum chatter on this site, my own tight budget and advice from the guy in Richer sounds, I'm extremely happy with it. Reinvigorated my love for listening to entire albums on CD, I'm hearing stuff on some of my faveorite songs that I never heard before, drums and bass are so clear now.
I've bored all my friends contantly going on about how much i like my new gadget so I figured I'd come on here where people wont get bored of me so quickly.
I've come across one problem though. I want to be able to plug in my laptop to the speakers via the Denon as its own speakers are beyond pathetic. I figured I'd just need to plug in a cable to the laptop headphones out socket and into the analogue in (red/white) sockets in the back of the denon, set it to Analouge and off I go. But no, apart from an unpleasant and proably unhealty hiss from the speakers, no sound.
So, what am I doing wrong? Do I need need something inbetween (DAC? preamp?). Is it my laptop? (note my laptop doesn't have a HDMI socket so that's not an option for me). Or is it just the cable, I found it and believe its the correct one but where the sockets on the Denon are Red and White the jacks on the cable are Red and Black, not sure if that means anything. I know you can plug in a TV through the Analoge in ports to I should be able to plug a laptop in right?
Not being able to run my laptop through the speakers with the upcoming party season fast approching is going to me a real drawback.
Thanks
I'm Bod from Bristol. First post on here, just this week I made my first foray into Hifi, retired my eight year old £20 dixons cd player and got myself a Denon DM39 with Cambridge Audio S30s. Based on reviews and forum chatter on this site, my own tight budget and advice from the guy in Richer sounds, I'm extremely happy with it. Reinvigorated my love for listening to entire albums on CD, I'm hearing stuff on some of my faveorite songs that I never heard before, drums and bass are so clear now.
I've bored all my friends contantly going on about how much i like my new gadget so I figured I'd come on here where people wont get bored of me so quickly.
I've come across one problem though. I want to be able to plug in my laptop to the speakers via the Denon as its own speakers are beyond pathetic. I figured I'd just need to plug in a cable to the laptop headphones out socket and into the analogue in (red/white) sockets in the back of the denon, set it to Analouge and off I go. But no, apart from an unpleasant and proably unhealty hiss from the speakers, no sound.
So, what am I doing wrong? Do I need need something inbetween (DAC? preamp?). Is it my laptop? (note my laptop doesn't have a HDMI socket so that's not an option for me). Or is it just the cable, I found it and believe its the correct one but where the sockets on the Denon are Red and White the jacks on the cable are Red and Black, not sure if that means anything. I know you can plug in a TV through the Analoge in ports to I should be able to plug a laptop in right?
Not being able to run my laptop through the speakers with the upcoming party season fast approching is going to me a real drawback.
Thanks