how to connect a headphone with mic ??

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how to connect a headphone with mic ??

I recently purchased a sennheiser headphone with mic , which has separate pins for audio and mic .

There is only audio outlet port on my mac . The audio is working fine, but even when I connect the microphone pin to port[same used for audio ] the in built mic is active and there is no other option shown in system preferences .

please tell me, can an external microphone be connected to mac??? if so ,how?

can a headphone with mic be used for both purposes simultaneously with any adapters ?

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Apr 26, 2015 4:42 AM

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Apr 26, 2015 4:48 AM in response to gagan m

There is no microphone input. Even on Macs which have a separate audio input socket it's a line-level one and a microphone will not work without an amplifier. You would need a USB headset to be able to use the mic.

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