HDMI to VGA with Audio Passthrough?

[talksr]

Hi all, 

I would be really grateful if anyone can link me something suitable....

 

We have a few old VGA projectors. All of the new laptops don't come with VGA and whilst you can get an HDMI to VGA adapter, what I am after is one with an audio passthrough as we find that often, the laptop decides to play the audio through the HDMI but when it is using something like this  ....the audio goes nowhere. 

 

In the back of my cupboard, I found one of these. Although it is not really designed with my current use case in mind, it works perfectly but sadly, they are no longer sold and I can only find a few on Ebay.

 

Can anyone recommend something suitable? 

Image for reference...

 

 

[dmj]

 

nvm it's discontinued

Edited July 18, 2025 by dmj

[dmj]

oh it's been replaced by this one with 3.5mm audio

https://www.startech.com/en-gb/display-video-adapters/hd2vgaa2

[talksr]

7 minutes ago, dmj said:

https://www.startech.com/en-gb/audio-video-products/hd2vgaa

Thanks very much. It was discontiuned but this is the newer version if anyone else needs something like this. I am going to get one ordered now. Thanks again 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BUKO4WY?th=1

[LeMarchand]

I've not had problems with the type you're not having any luck with. Got a few Fairline 6011-505s from SoftCat for £3.50. Didn't bother with the power.

 

[Koldov]

We use the Startech ones as they seem to cope with most set-ups and we've had variable results with other brands (mostly cheap Chinese versions).

 

https://www.startech.com/en-gb/display-video-adapters/hd2vgaa2?srsltid=AfmBOorjuTolJwfosHALujfj2E-d-wt6uKIj4gtgfvIFdQU9g5FqbBxL

 

We did get a few with audio passthrough, but we used the adaptors 3.5mm jack > speakers and it was hardly audible. I didn't do a lot of testing as I was always called mid-lesson, or mid-assembly so I just had to tell them to plug in the speakers like they used to into the 3.5mm jack on the laptop and choose 'speakers' in the audio/volume pop-up from the taskbar rather than the HDMI device. Also it requires usb power.