Can you elaborate a bit? A photo would also be nice for the disappointing picture quality. If this is 27" monitor with FullHD resolution (1920x1080) then the picture will look grainy as the monitor itself has too low resolution to hide the grid between pixels. A QHD (2560x1440) resolution is relatively OK for 27", while 5K like iMacs would be an overkill with everything too small, although very smooth. Writing this on 5k iMac so if everything is too big and boxy, change display setting, but if it's grainy and you see grid between pixels - you can either get 24" screen at FHD (which will look smoother, or get higher resolution monitor, as no amount of tweaking will resolve the grid issue at that size of the screen. For settings, click on wheel in taskbar, or choose System Settings from Apple menu top left. or Scroll down to Displays and select resolution and scaling - I think pictures above Larger Text and More Space are self explanatory: Make sure to use HDMI cable that is not too long (1.5 or 2 m at most) that are rated for 4K resolution (can be 8K but for this case that won't make a difference), and get cable from reputable company (maybe UGreen, not a generic 50 THB cable off Lazada). Cable provided with monitor is usually not total rubbish, so it should already be quite decent. If it cannot support resolution, however, the picture will look OK but sometimes the picture will show artifacts like colour going crazy or picture fall apart into blocks. Or just won't display anything if cable is really bad quality. Though, every HDMI cable should support FullHD at least. Without knowing what actual problem that you're facing is, it is difficult to write more. On the sound, though. Yes, Mac Mini has built in really crappy speaker. It works, but it's bad. You can easily fix this by plugging in a set of external speakers using a 3.5 mm headphone jack style output at the back of it (assuming you have M1-M3 based Mac Mini, it should look like this at the back): Alternatively, you can get Bluetooth wireless speakers. Connect them from Bluetooth Menu in System Settings: Or from top Bluetooth menu in top ba: Once connected, scroll down System Settings and locate Sound, then select External Headphones as device (if you are using wired speakers connected at the back) or select Bluetooth speakers to stream audio to in Output tab (below screenshot has External Headphones selected): Hope this is of any use.
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