Connection monitor speakers to an iMac

Hi there. Everytime i try connect my speakers to my iMac it makesa really annoying static noise from the speakers even when audio is playing through them. I never have this problem if i plug them into my macbook pro and also the same problem doesn't occur when I plug headphones into my iMac so I cant figure out where the problem could be coming from. Does anyone know how to solve this? such as getting a soundcard to turn the analogue signal into a digital one.
Thanks.

Do you possibly have the speaker system plugged into the same electrical outlet as the iMac? Sometimes you must isolate the two from one another on separate electrical circuits to eliminate this issue.
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1. the output is good enough to run external speakers through (you'd need to have the hearing of a bat to notice the difference. Only the very highest and ver, very lowest of frequencies are lost.)
2. yes the headphone jack will work (if you iMac has an 'output' jack though, use it instead.)
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4. refer to answer 1
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