First Mac Pro & a dumb question. Rear speaker jack won't fit "regular" plug

Ok, so I just got my first Mac Pro and the front headphone jack works with my standard computer speakers, but the rear plug doesn't seem to work with them. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting I need to enable? It the jack a different size?
The speakers I am using are a standard powered computer speaker with a standard headphone size plug.
Thanks,
Jeff

So, by default, the system had that port turned off and I need to turn it on?
It's not that the port is turned off, just that the default is to send sound to the front port (or speaker if nothing is plugged into the front port). It is possible to use both front and rear ports simultaneously, either with the same audio sent to both, or different applications sending different audio to each by using applications such as Audio Hijack Pro.
<http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/>

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