Hello everyone,
If any of you fellow forum members have any idea what this problem might be or how it could potentially be fixed, please feel free to chime in.
I have a mid-2015 15" 2.8 Ghz MacBook Pro. I routinely use it as my main "audiophile" machine, and connect it to my desktop DAC via USB. Just last night, the USB port on the right-hand side next to the HDMI jack began failing to produce an audio signal. I tried my DAC with the other ports, and it seemed to work fine.
I tried the SMC and PRAM resets, which did not solve the problem, nor did manually selecting audio output. Changing USB cables also did not rectify it. The real downside of that right-side port not sending digital audio is that I'd rather not have a USB cable running across my legs every time I lay in bed to use my nice headphone setup. What's extremely odd though, is that specific port does still seem to work otherwise. I tried sync'ing my iPhone with it. The MBP immediately recognized the iPhone, and began syncing as if nothing was at fault.
So the question is...how could a USB port work to sync an iPhone, but not be able to pass audio to an external DAC?
Thank you in advance for any insight.
If any of you fellow forum members have any idea what this problem might be or how it could potentially be fixed, please feel free to chime in.
I have a mid-2015 15" 2.8 Ghz MacBook Pro. I routinely use it as my main "audiophile" machine, and connect it to my desktop DAC via USB. Just last night, the USB port on the right-hand side next to the HDMI jack began failing to produce an audio signal. I tried my DAC with the other ports, and it seemed to work fine.
I tried the SMC and PRAM resets, which did not solve the problem, nor did manually selecting audio output. Changing USB cables also did not rectify it. The real downside of that right-side port not sending digital audio is that I'd rather not have a USB cable running across my legs every time I lay in bed to use my nice headphone setup. What's extremely odd though, is that specific port does still seem to work otherwise. I tried sync'ing my iPhone with it. The MBP immediately recognized the iPhone, and began syncing as if nothing was at fault.
So the question is...how could a USB port work to sync an iPhone, but not be able to pass audio to an external DAC?
Thank you in advance for any insight.
