In our office, we have a set of sound-sticks. I wanted to be able to use those speakers for both the Sonos ZonePlayer in the office, and the iMac. The ZonePlayer in the office formerly was just an “extender” as it was the required ZP that needed to be on a hard-ethernet line.
I wanted to be able to use it for audio in sync with the audio in the rest of the house. This was also important because it could act as the announcement system for the home-automation MacMini for the two upstairs rooms. One option of course is to get a mixer for multiple input sources to one output. However, at Radioshack, I spent 24 bucks on a better way:
Headphone splitter
1/8th” stereo coupler
1/8th inch to RCA
Plug the speakers into the coupler, and the coupler into the speaker.
Then plug the computer into one splitter input, and the RCA/1/8th adapter into the other. The stereo RCA go to the Sonos and the other to the iMac.
Adjust volume and just like magic, it works.
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