Connecting a PC and PS4 to same speakers

spengos · 30 Jun 2015 at 11:40

I have a set of Logitech speakers that I currently use on my PC and I'm trying to find a way to also use them for my PS4 as well. Would something like this enable me to connect both PC and PS4 at the same time?

and then use this for the PS4 connection?

My thinking is that the speakers go in the female end and then this splits off to the PC and PS4? I'm struggling a bit to get my head around whether this will work or if the input/output direction is wrong. I'm probably approaching this from entirely the wrong way.

spengos · 30 Jun 2015 at 13:17

The connection to the speakers is a 3.5mm male connector.

The PS4 has HDMI but there's also optical, but I'm just using HDMI at the moment.

spengos · 30 Jun 2015 at 13:58

leigh_boy said:
this is very ghetto year 2000 stuff, go optical from the speakers to the tv. job done it will pass through the sound to anything that would normally go to the tv.

Its a monitor though, not a TV. I share a monitor between PC and PS4.

So if I go the optical route what adapters/cables do I need to output to the speakers? Optical to 3.5mm phono? :confused:

spengos · 30 Jun 2015 at 19:14

Meh, seems like a pain. I'm tempted to just get a second monitor/TV instead with built in speakers and use that exclusively for PS4. Its annoying to switch source all the time anyway.