I have a very old Denon with optical inputs. I plugged the MacMini into
the same connector as my DVD player used to be and it just worked.
Playing a DVD does the full 5.1 surround sound from the mini's optical
audio out. Only hard part was coming up with the little TOSLink to
regular square optical cable. As I wrote some time ago, all the usual
places (Radio Shack, BestBuy etc) had no idea what I was talking about.
Even the local high-end stereo place didn't have them. So I found one
online for about $5 with shipping included. Main thing to search on was
mini toslink which is what the headphone optical output is. Usually the
description is something like "Toslink to Mini Toslink". Here is one
from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FMXKC8/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
CB
On 8/23/11 8:55 AM, Bill Holton wrote:
Can someone suggest a nice sound system that would take advantage of the
mini's optical out connector?
BTW: I have been running my new model Mac Mini for several days without a
connected monitor and everything works fine.
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