HDMI ARC Audio Extractor 192KHz Digital to Analog Audio Converter HDMI ARC Input SPDIF Optical to 3.5mm RCA Converter Optical Coaxial Stereo Adapter with 3 Mode Switch

This was very helpful. We have an older Viso sound bar and since the new TV does not have many places to plug in connections. This helped to make the old sound bar work.

Works great! Just as expected

This worked masterfully! I have great sound coming out of my speaker now. I should have purchased this sooner! Thanks!

This seems to work fine except the output volume compared to just using analog RCA plugged into the TV. I bought this to have it work with a new TV I have coming in the mail, as it either plays audio through SPDIF or RCA but not both. I use wireless headphones through SPDIF and use an external analog speaker setup at the same time, so I need to plug that analog audio connection through SPDIF as well. I'll see how much more gain I need to give this device in order to work efficiently but right now it's sort of disappointing. I saw comments on other DACs like this and I guess I hoped this one was different based on the 5 star reviews but I see it's not.

I use these adapters in our gaming lounge. Our TVs all have headphone jacks, but the headphone plugs often get broken in the jack if a customer trips on the headphone cord. I plug this adapter into the optical audio out / toslink / spdif out and then I can plug the headphone jack into the converter adapter. I plug the USB plug into the USB port in the TV to power the converter. This solves my headphone plug issue because I can position the converter box and secure it down so that if a customer trips on the headphone cord it will simply pull easily out of the converter and can be plugged back in easily. Also in worst case, if the headphone plug tip does break off into the adapter, its only $12 to replace the converter whereas a broken plug in a TV is far more expensive to fix if even possible.The only problem with this adapter is there are rare times that the converter doesn't process the signal properly and no sound comes out in the headphones. I don't know if it is a data code issue that is not supported or what. When this happens there isn't much you can do. Sometimes it is solved by unplugging the power to the converter and replugging it in. This suggests its not a code unrecognized issue. However, I have on other occassions simply switched out to another converter box that I have as extra and it often works. I have 3 gaming centers with about 70 of these adapters, I do recommend them.

At first it didn't work, but the service gave me additional information to change the settings on my tv to make it work. Very thankful.

I hooked this up with HDMI arc and it didn't work at all ,I used an optical cable and it only worked on speakers with built in amps

I couldn't get the product to work right until I read on another review that the optical cables come with little caps on them that have to be removed first. Once I pulled those off, voila! Success! It really looks like the caps are part of the cord, I never would have guessed on my own that it was something that needed to be removed before using. It should mention that in the manual.The power cable I received wasn't a USB one, either, it's hardwired to the plug. This was a little disappointing as the photos show the cable as a USB one + an adapter and I had planned on plugging it in to a USB outlet. Easy fix, just misleading.Otherwise, very happy with the product! I'm using it in my RV with a little TV that doesn't have any audio outputs other than the optical one, which I'd never seen/heart of before. I wanted to connect the TV to my surround sound speakers and my receiver didn't have the optical plug. Using this converter (once I removed the caps off the optical cable), connects the TV to the receiver and I now have use of my surround sound system.-Jen