- Aug 19, 2001
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I'm going to pick up a MBP this coming (LA tax-free) weekend. My LCD has VGA and HDMI inputs, and built in speakers. The built in speakers are pretty awful, so I feed them audio over a standard 3.5mm cable. I think I can also pass the audio through my LCD, but my gut tells me that screws with the audio quality. I'm trying to figure out which adapter I need to buy.
Since a new MBP should support audio over mini displayport, I can use a mini-displayport to HDMI adapter and get audio over HDMI. If I do that and then plug a 3.5mm audio cable to the MBP anyway, will audio go over both HDMI and the audio cable? Or will one wire supercede the other? If one wire supercedes the other, which one wins?
If HDMI supercedes 3.5mm, then I need to get a mini-DP to DVI and a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to my LCD.
If audio goes over both simultaneously or if 3.5mm supercedes HDMI, then I can get a mini-DP to HDMI and use my existing HDMI cable.
Since a new MBP should support audio over mini displayport, I can use a mini-displayport to HDMI adapter and get audio over HDMI. If I do that and then plug a 3.5mm audio cable to the MBP anyway, will audio go over both HDMI and the audio cable? Or will one wire supercede the other? If one wire supercedes the other, which one wins?
If HDMI supercedes 3.5mm, then I need to get a mini-DP to DVI and a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to my LCD.
If audio goes over both simultaneously or if 3.5mm supercedes HDMI, then I can get a mini-DP to HDMI and use my existing HDMI cable.