X2 pcs, one set of speakers...

doggles · 2 Oct 2025 at 13:27

iamgigglz said:
Ah sensible choice to omit the inline volume control - often the source of problems. Enjoy!

Yea it was mentioned above that they could cause an issue...plus I can just control it from the speakers...

I'll report back on the quality

freebooter · Friday at 18:30

I currently have 2 PCs connected to one monitor and both send sound to the monitor via dp and hdmi cables. I then have a cable from the headphone out port of the monitor to a mini amp. The sound automatically switches depending on which PC is active on the monitor.
This does mean the sound is coming through the GPUs in both cases instead of the motherboard sound. I don't know whether there is any difference in quality between the GPU and MB sound?

doggles · Monday at 15:42

Re the splitter i linked on page 1.

Its about the size of a.matchbox, works perfectly for the job. No noticeable issues with the sound out put.

Timber · Monday at 15:52

freebooter said:
I currently have 2 PCs connected to one monitor and both send sound to the monitor via dp and hdmi cables. I then have a cable from the headphone out port of the monitor to a mini amp. The sound automatically switches depending on which PC is active on the monitor.
This does mean the sound is coming through the GPUs in both cases instead of the motherboard sound. I don't know whether there is any difference in quality between the GPU and MB sound?

I've never used this configuration, so others may be able to chime-in and correct me, but isn't the audio in both cases motherboard audio being sent digitally via HDMI, or Display Port. Differences will be the audio source on each PC.

doggles said:
Re the splitter i linked on page 1.

Its about the size of a.matchbox, works perfectly for the job. No noticeable issues with the sound out put.

Sounds like a result!