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Digital audio out

Is it possible to get digital audio out of a new M1 Mac mini through a USB-C port or by any other method? I'd like to hook the mini up to a 5.1 surround sound system. Cheers.

Posted on Nov 17, 2020 9:52 AM

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Nov 17, 2020 11:19 AM in response to Tesserax

Tesserax wrote:

Per Apple's specs, the M1 Mac mini only supports multi-channel digital audio output via its HDMI 2.0 port.

Ref: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP823?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Not exactly. The way I read it is that HDMI supports multichannel,

as it always had. 2018 spec is identical in that regard but pretty

much known that mast any DAC or USB audio interface works just fine.


Any other USB device that follows the USB Audio Device spec

should work fine and will likely be more app dependent (as usual).

Nov 17, 2020 1:27 PM in response to woodmeister50

woodmeister50 wrote:

... 2018 spec is identical in that regard but pretty
much known that mast any DAC or USB audio interface works just fine.

Any other USB device that follows the USB Audio Device spec
should work fine and will likely be more app dependent (as usual).

You are absolutely correct. Didn't have my coffee this morning when I replied to the OP. Thanks for jumping in.

Digital audio out

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