Can I connect 'normal' speakers to the pro speaker socket?

I do a lot of music production on my imac G4 and have a pair of studio monitors instead of the globe pro speakers. These are connected to the headphones socket, and whenever I want to actually use the headphones have to fiddle round at the back of the mac swapping connections, which is a bit of a bind.
Is there an adaptor I can get so I can connect the monitors to the speakers socket and free up the headphones socket ?I've searched around but can't seem to find anything.
I've read a few other posts which seem to imply that only the apple pro speakers will actualy work with the speaker socket, is this actually the case ?
Thanks in advance

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions. 
Not only will you potentially damage the other speakers because of the high power output (There is a good reason why Apple made the connectors different) but also you may cause the iMac to suffer issues (see this recent post). The Apple Pro Speakers contain a ROM that confirms to the iMac that they are suitable device.
You should purchase a Griffin iMic (link) or similar.
mrtotes

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