[Avid-L2] Re: monitor audio off laptop edit

So is the MacBook Pro actually spitting out an optical light source in the mini socket. I read that the option only appears once a TosLink to mini cable is plugged in the socket. Is the optical light source created in the MacBook socket or in the adapter cable?

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>
> I was doing some recent research on this. An interesting thing to note
> is that the audio out of the MacBookPro is not JUST a simple mini-
> plug, but ALSO a digital mini-TOSlink audio output. There are some
> mixers and speakers that can take the digital TOS-link audio (through
> a simple mini-to regular TOS-link audio adaptor).
>
> Sweetwater had active monitors that worked with a MacBookPro if I
> remember. I'll look through my notes and follow up later.
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Lou Wirth wrote:
>
> > How do you folks monitor your audio when working off a Laptop at a
> > desk ?(not talking about being mobile). I was using M-audio usb as my
> > interface but when I brought the project into my suite the audio mix
> > was horrendous. Is a small mixer the way to go using the macbook pro
> > audio out?
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

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