Posted 19 hours ago

Speakers for a montior

Hi,

I have recently got hands on a Dell monitor. It doesn’t have any audio ports however has USB and a standard HDMI socket.

My intel is limited but can I get cheap speakers to plug into the monitor?

Thanks in advance
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  1. PonJaul76's avatar
    I went the cheap soundbar route myself. does the job and connects bluetooth or HDMI (edited)
  2. EndlessWaves's avatar
    You don't give the model or even the approximate age but generally the USB ports on a monitor are just a hub and will not support USB audio output from the HDMI connection.

    Some monitors will have analogue audio outputs that will do what you want but otherwise you'll likely have to plug the speakers into the device at the other end of the HDMI connection.
  3. MadeDixonsCry's avatar
    If your monitor doesnt have speakers (they rarely do) then you can't plug speakers into the monitor; they go into the device providing the audio signal.
    EndlessWaves's avatar
    While it's not universal it's not at all rare, maybe half of monitor models have speakers.

    Also, monitors do exist that have audio outputs without having speakers.
  4. Uridium's avatar
    you haven't told us the monitor model or even what type of USB connection (monitors can have USB A,B & C connections.
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