I want to rent a movie on my MacBook Air and my husband and I want to watch the movie together using two separate headsets. Can this been done. I have 3 headsets to choose from, Wireless Bose, Logitech usb plugin and a set that uses the pin plug in. I am not able to bluetooth my bose – only works on my iPad. The other two pin plug in and USB plug in only allows one to work at a time. Is it possible for both of us to watch a movie using separate headphones on MacBook Air??
MacBook – Using two headsets on the MacBook Air
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You don't need special hardware for this. Plug in both headphones, then open Audio Midi setup from /Applications/Utilities. Click the plus in the lower left corner and choose "Create Multi-Output Device." Check the checkboxes beside both headphones in the new panel on the right. If you want to rename it, you can double click the new entry in the list on the left and give it a name like "Both headphones."
Now you can choose the Multi-Output Device as the audio output in System Preferences → Sound. (You can also easily change the output by holding the Option key and clicking the volume menu.)
Not sure it's going to work using an Aggregate Device - each output must have its own channel that way.
Look at a Multi-Output Device instead - then channels can share one output.
You of course, don't need to use the same 'device' for both input & output, so you can set up a different one for input - though I'm still not certain you will be able to listen to [record] both mics at the same time, the same considerations may apply.
I can't test on USB headphones as I don't have any, but using this setup I can play iTunes over internal speakers and my dedicated sound card at the same time
sounds horrible, of course;)
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Best Answer
You need a Y cable splitter to connect 2 headsets.
Most come with single audio control but there are some with dual audio volume. If you already have audio volume control on each headset then no problem.
Since you have the headsets already with different plugs you will have to get appropriate cable splitter for that.
I did some search for you.
First the USB male to 2x Female splitter like this.
One you use for your USB Head set.
For the second headset you need another adapter like this.
Those do not have Volume adjustment, so hope there is no problem with that :).