# Optical out from a MacBook...to what?

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**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.headphones.com/t/optical-out-from-a-macbook-to-what/1385 "2018-05-14T16:51:48Z")\
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You can make use of the optical output to go into an external DAC. You just need to get a [digital mini toslink cable like this one](https://www.amazon.com/FosPower-Toslink-Digital-Connectors-Strain-Relief/dp/B00T8HWUVS/?tag=headphonesi00-20). If you don’t have an external DAC and just an amp, then that won’t work as an amp needs an analog signal. So in that case you would just be using a standard 3.5mm AUX cable to the RCA inputs of an amp.

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