#audio #geekery #PSA 4 laptop people:
if ur laptop has decent speakers and ur using lets say a bluetooth speaker, route audio to both the external and ur laptops speakers
ive been away from home a lot in the last few months with only laptop and bluetooth speaker and its always been either one or the other
by default audio goes either external or internal output and the output chooser only allows choosing one but not multiple so this very obvious thing has slipped me quite some time
on mac its trivial to set up a multi output device using the built in Audio MIDI Setup.app > + > Create Multi Output Device and then choose that in the system audio output chooser
the sound now ... incredible for such a small setup with best results when the laptop is in front of u and the speaker behind
my mac has incredible clarity and imaging while the bluetooth speaker brings the room filling oomph the laptop cant provide
(keep in mind different distances to the sound sources will introduce phase shifts in the sound)
lastly 4 the mac ppl i can recommend SoundSource.app 4 audio routing on a by app basis and other goodies
i use that to route only muslc to both, while keeping browser and system alerts to the laptop only
