# WM8960 Breakout external I2S?

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wm8960-breakout-external-i2s/61982>\
**Category:** Sound & Audio\
**Created:** [November 22, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wm8960-breakout-external-i2s/61982 "2024-11-22T12:40:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![RadCuatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@RadCuatro](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/RadCuatro)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 12:40pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wm8960-breakout-external-i2s/61982/1 "2024-11-22T12:40:02Z")

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Hello! Having fun with the WM8960 breakout board!  
Curious the best method for audio output OTHER than the speaker outputs and headphone outputs? A line output, or maybe a I2S to a I2S capable DAC/Speaker amp.

Thanks for any help!

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**Author:** ![TS-Russell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/sparkfun/user_avatar/community.sparkfun.com/ts-russell/32/6092_2.png) [@TS-Russell](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/TS-Russell)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wm8960-breakout-external-i2s/61982/2 "2024-11-22T23:07:55Z")

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The “headphone” outputs are also useful as line outputs (Note, when doing this, it is highly recommended to put some output caps in series with the connection). Going to another external I2S DAC or speaker amp seems unnecessary (as the WM8960 has both of those things in it). That is, unless you were driving bigger speakers.