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Originally Posted by 515bonner
Been using some regular old PC speakers for sound.
Bought a pair of USB active studio monitors which should arrive Tuesday.
Set up is not readily apparent on user manual.
So I plan on using the USB connections.
Am I correct in hooking these up with the supplied USB cable
and then going into the system preferences and changing the
audio from the default headphone output to USB (if it shows up)?
I also have an Audiobox iOne, but I don't believe I should hook this up since the new speakers are active and already have amps built in.
Just curious........
Rob
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The Audiobox would be fine with the powered speakers getting signal from the main outputs on the back to its line inputs. You could send the headphone out to them as well, but the former keeps the headphone outs available for the phones. After it is connected the Audiobox will show up as a device named that, so it will be easy to choose.
Only issue would be if the speakers ONLY have USB connections. But even then it *might* work with the "Allow use of different input and output devices" option with the Audiobox and speakers in their own USB ports" but it might not, or might not work well enough.
What computer? If you don't use the Audiobox and use the system ins and outs instead you'd have to take the computer output, probably laptop? so 1/8" combination headphone/line outs to the powered speaker and choose default system ins and outs as the device. No reason not to use the Audiobox.