Right, so the optical cable I got has a small headphone jack shape on
one end and the typical square shape on the other going into my receiver
to do the 5.1 decode. Works great. If you don't have a 5.1 receiver you
can also get a standalone decoder but then you'll need to run that into
6 amps. I've done that for larger venues but it's kind of overkill for
home. If you decide to give that a whirl I can dig up a link to the cable.
CB
On 4/26/13 10:34 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
oh, you mean 3.5MM optical. ok. I thought you were saying it had the
big square shaped optical port. ok, I'm on the same page now. I was
about to say. LOL!
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "shane christenson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Good speakers for mac mini
The audio jacks are located on the very back bottom panel of the mac
mini. I believe from what I've read, the jacks are capable of
accepting optical cables, provided they have the correct tips to
correspond with the jacks. The left most jack, if you're looking at
the mac mini, reaching around to the back, are, going from left to
right, audio out, then audio in. They are located below the SD card
slot. HTH
Shane
On Apr 26, 2013, at 8:16 PM, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Huh? the mini as an optical audio out? OK? Where is it located.
I've never seen it. I know it's got h d m i, but...
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Good speakers for mac mini
Just an FYI, if you really are doing a 5.1 surround sound setup you can
run the optical output from your mini to a standard 5.1 decoder receiver
so when you play a DVD you get all the surround-sound goodness. Other
than that, what speakers sound good is a pretty subjective thing.
Personally I like my old JBL 4408 studio monitors.
CB
On 4/26/13 12:13 PM, Marc Rocheleau wrote:
Hi all,
I've been making due with my mac mini's internal speaker since my old
PC speakers, a 5.1 set that hadn't worked properly in years, went
kaput. After grieving the loss for months (not really,) I think I'm
finally ready to move on and get a nice set of speakers.
Now I throw it to you for any recommendations you may have. I do have
a certain criteria though:
- I listen to music... a lot. I want it to sound good coming out of
these things.
- I will most likely be setting this up to watch DVDs since, when I
move out eventually, we'll be hooking up a TV as a display with HDMI.
We're getting a futon so our office will double as a movie room.
- I'm moving into an apartment building and don't want something too
bass heavy because of that. I don't think the neighbours would
appreciate it. ;)
- The less space it takes up, the better. I am not opposed to 5.1 but
don't want huge speakers since we'll have other stuff taking up space.
- I don't want to spend tons of money on these. $500 is my absolute
limit but I'd like to keep it quite a bit lower than that if possible.
- I'm in Canada... any links provided would be even more useful if
they're from Canadian sites.
- I want something easy to set up on the mac mini... I don't want to
mess with a bunch of adapters.
I think that's about it. There's a couple of two-speaker sets from
Bosse on the apple store but reviews are so varied that it leaves me
unsure. Many say that it has tons of bass too so I am reluctant to put
out the cash for one of those. I have had a hard time finding other
options though so I am hoping some of you may have recommendations
and/or experience that could help me make a decision.
Either way, thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer!
-Marc
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