Monitor to Aux In

Holliday · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:10

Not sure if to post this on monitors, consoles or here, but it's a sound issue so I'll try here.

I have my pc rigged upto a pair of Creative GigaWorks T20 Series II speakers, thats all fine and dandy.

I just got a Iiyama ProLite E2475HDS monitor purely for ps3 gaming. I knew the inbuilt speakers were pretty worthless, so I want to try and hook up my ps3/monitors sound to my T20's via the aux in on the front as to still have them running my pc's sound also. Is this possible?

Thanks for your help!

Marsman · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:46

Does the monitor have a 3.5mm audio out, to connect to external speakers?

If so, just get a 3.5mm both ends cable, and go from the monitor to the speakers aux in.

Holliday · 11 Nov 2011 at 20:15

Marsman said:
Does the monitor have a 3.5mm audio out, to connect to external speakers?

If so, just get a 3.5mm both ends cable, and go from the monitor to the speakers aux in.

Now thinking about it I dont think it does, it only has an audio input one. So I think I'm going to have to get the sound directly from the ps3 via optical audio port. So I can either get a optical cable and plug it into my speakers also (not sure if it's possible or a good idea seeing as though they're already plugged into my pc) or get another pair of speakers to use with the ps3.

Marsman · 11 Nov 2011 at 21:07

The T20's don't have optical.

If the PS3 can output audio via the RCA connections as well as HDMI at the same time, then you could buy a cable which you can connect the speakers.

I don't know if using the HDMI overrides the analogue output though.