plazman30
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Someone gifted me a 7th gen iPod Classic back in August. I liked it so much, that I bought a modded a 5.5 iPod with 512 GB of flash storage.
A few weeks later I found a Bose iPod dock that plugs in with a wall wart, and had a line out jack on the back. I hooked it up to the amp I had on my work desk, and all was good.
Then I got the idea to buy a full Bose Sound Dock. I bought a used Bose Sound Dock II for $60.00 off a very nice seller on Facebook Marketplace. I got it home and could not get the thing to work. With the iPod Classic, it would charge the iPod, but it would not play music. The iPod 5.5 would neither play nor charge.
I bought a 30 pin dock extender. That got the 5.5 to charge, but neither would play music.
I reached out to the seller and he met me with 4 other Sound Docks. He pulled out an iPhone 4S and an iPod Nano and he showed me how all 4 of his Sound Docks (3 Sound Dock II, and one Sound Dock portable) played music just fine on both the iPhone 4S and the first gen iPod nano.
Neither of my two iPods would play any sound on any of the 4 Sound Docks, with or without the dock extenders.
The seller happily took back the original Sound Dock II and gave me a full refund.
This left me stumped. I thought perhaps it was my iPods, but I found it odd that they play just fine on the one dock that I have.
So, I found a genuine Apple dock with a line out on it and bought that yesterday. Dropped both iPods into it and they both played just fine from the line out jack on the back of the dock.
So, I'm really confused. Is there some kind of compatibility issues with iPod Classics and the Bose Sound Dock II?
A few weeks later I found a Bose iPod dock that plugs in with a wall wart, and had a line out jack on the back. I hooked it up to the amp I had on my work desk, and all was good.
Then I got the idea to buy a full Bose Sound Dock. I bought a used Bose Sound Dock II for $60.00 off a very nice seller on Facebook Marketplace. I got it home and could not get the thing to work. With the iPod Classic, it would charge the iPod, but it would not play music. The iPod 5.5 would neither play nor charge.
I bought a 30 pin dock extender. That got the 5.5 to charge, but neither would play music.
I reached out to the seller and he met me with 4 other Sound Docks. He pulled out an iPhone 4S and an iPod Nano and he showed me how all 4 of his Sound Docks (3 Sound Dock II, and one Sound Dock portable) played music just fine on both the iPhone 4S and the first gen iPod nano.
Neither of my two iPods would play any sound on any of the 4 Sound Docks, with or without the dock extenders.
The seller happily took back the original Sound Dock II and gave me a full refund.
This left me stumped. I thought perhaps it was my iPods, but I found it odd that they play just fine on the one dock that I have.
So, I found a genuine Apple dock with a line out on it and bought that yesterday. Dropped both iPods into it and they both played just fine from the line out jack on the back of the dock.
So, I'm really confused. Is there some kind of compatibility issues with iPod Classics and the Bose Sound Dock II?