can you ouput audio from a mac by usb?

[anonymous-user]

Hoping someone can help clarify this- I have a monitor audio s300 speaker thing and a mac. For garden cinema, we'd like to use the monitor as the sound source but airplay is a bit flaky through an entire film. I have a long usb cable which plugs the mac into the monitor, BUT it still shows in the sound options on the mac as an airplay device... is there a way to run the audio through the usb cable to the monitor speaker and avoid wifi?

Thanks for any help!

[benz0]

Use the aux

[anonymous-user]

Thanks, was thinking it must surely be possible to use the usb out- usb in route- but unless anyone knows differently, I guess it's an aux lead, before Apple have them all destroyed!

[George111]

Buy a USB DAC - improve the sound quality at the same time. Very popular.

Airplay is usually very reliable - is your wifi signal getting a bit weak out in the garden ?

[GCH]

Plug in the USB, switch the speaker unit to the correct USB mode, and then hold option+click on the speaker icon on your mac desktop.



Is there a USB output or name of speaker unit listed?

[benz0]

according to the manual for this product (hint hint RTFM) it supports USB storage devices but won't connect in USB to a mac or PC.

the suggestion for a dac is a good one, the behringer UCA 202 is about 20 quid and works pretty well in my experience.