{"id":481,"date":"2010-04-27T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/?p=481"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:26:03","slug":"2010-mbp-17-optical-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Mid-2010 MBP 17&#8243; Optical Input"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regarding the Digital Audio In capability of the mid-2010 MacBook Pro&#8217;s, has anybody been able to make it work? While this feature was introduced with the previous generation, this is the first Mac that I bought that has this feature.<\/p>\n<p>When I connect my TOSLink optical cable (with the proper adaptor) between the output of the my brand new MacBook Pro 17&#8243; and my amplifier&#8217;s optical input, I get working audio. When I connect my amplifier&#8217;s out (optical) to the audio in of the Mac, all I get is crackling noise. Booting up in Windows XP, and trying the same, ends up with identical results. Analog audio in and out work fine.<\/p>\n<p>I tried using another Mac&#8217;s optical output as input to my new Mac, but that does not even trigger my new Mac to switch to digital in.<\/p>\n<p>After a conversation with Apple support, I had a follow-up trip to the Genius bar here in Chicago. Despite Apple genius Brandon&#8217;s best efforts, we could not make my Mac&#8217;s digital audio-in work. We tried it with two other Macs there, and they did not work either.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have a clue?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92010 EthnoSync.com. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7338556709983307\";\n\/* ArticleBanner *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0441375625\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the Digital Audio In capability of the mid-2010 MacBook Pro&#8217;s, has anybody been able to make it work? While this feature was introduced with the previous generation, this is the first Mac that I bought that has this feature. When I connect my TOSLink optical cable (with the proper adaptor) between the output of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,80],"tags":[177,69,67,68],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-mbp","tag-apple","tag-audio-in","tag-mbp-17","tag-tos","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}