Tendak ARC Audio Extractor, 192KHz Digital to Analog Audio Converter DAC Converter, HDMI ARC or SPDIF/Optical to HDMI, SPDIF/Optical, 3.5mm Jack & Stereo L/R Outputs for TV, DVD and Game Consoles

Why did you pick this product vs others?:It works like a champ, price is fair, highly recommented.

TV manufacturers seem to want us to buy overpriced mono bluetooth speakers they call "soundbars" or expensive phantom-power-sucking rigs with a dozen always-on class-A amplifiers they call "receivers" in order to hear what is happening on the TV before the wall does. I just want to listen to my music in high fidelity stereo, and if the stereo sounds better than the TV why can't I just plug the TV into it like I did in the 90s? In their passion for new technological downgrades they have abandoned every last simple stereo audio output that supported lossless copper wire audio. TOSLINK optical outputs seem great until you realize they can't control the volume. Bluetooth can control the volume but is a downgrade on every other front: when it does connect it will still disconnect actors' voices from their mouths, and even if you can tweak that timing into a semblance of synchronicity a good stereo system will still reveal a tinny reproduction of sound. Maybe it fills out when you add another 5 channels of badly timed tin?The thing for the music lover to do is reserve their budget for the best speakers they can afford, buy a power-efficient 2.1 class-D stereo amplifier at a fraction of the cost of modern AV receivers, and connect it to the TV with a "192KHz+ HDMI eARC CEC volume control DAC", like this device, plugged into the TV's HDMI ARC "input". Now my family doesn't need an instruction manual for an arsenal of remotes, my music still sounds like it was meant to, and actors voices come out of their mouths on time.But that all is beside the point of this review: a decade ago a little black box of do-nothing electronics like this would have come with five bright shining blue indicator lights flashing signals to the heavens from behind the TV at all hours, while this modern innovation comes with a blessed zero lights of any kind. It doesn't even turn one on when you turn it off! For consumer electronics to come so far in such a short time is truly a marvel of human ingenuity.

It doesn’t work. I bought a soundbar unaware that it didn’t have an HDMI output. It only had optical and my TV doesn’t have optical. It’s a new TV. I guess they may be phasing out optical. So I got this converter and connected everything correctly. My TV shows there is an audio device connected but there’s no sound. I tried everything. I changed the audio output of the TV, made sure I was using the ARC input on the TV, checked to see if the switch on the device was on optical in and anything else that might have been causing the issue. Still didn’t work. So now the soundbar is only connected via Bluetooth. I prefer a wired connection.

Drove me crazy, no extracted sound, until I read all the fine print to switch my TV sound from "auto" to "PCM".Works fine with volume control on the sound bar and on the connected speakers. The only thing that didn't work was that the signal to turn on the sound bar automatically from the TV was lost and I have to turn it on manually.

This worked perfectly. I had an old Bose 123 receiver and a new Samsung tv that only had hdmi ports. One of the hdmi ports supports ARC, which allowed me to connect the audio optical ports from this device to the receiver and connect the HDMI arc port on the TV to the HDMI arc on this device and voile my old speakers worked.Granted I can't use the universal remote on the old Bose receiver but the sound makes that inconvenience bearable.

I bought this because I wanted to be able to control the volume from the source. That part works but I get a constant low rumble through the subwoofer that seems to be originating from this device.

Maybe an exaggeration but you get the picture. I wanted good quality sound when I watch TV or listen to Pandora with the Roku Ultra, but didn't want to spend a small fortune on an amp and satellite speakers. I bought a Sony HTS100F Soundbar for about $100 and connected it directly to the HDMI ARC output on the TV. The sound was OK but not what I was looking for. Then I installed this Tendak 192KHz HDMI ARC Audio Extractor between the HDMI ARC output on the TV and the HDMI ARC input on the Soundbar. Bingo! Problem solved and the Sony HTS100F Soundbar fills the room with HiFi Stereo Sound. I don't write many reviews, but I am very pleased with this reasonably priced device and wanted to share my experience.

This product is very good and works completely as mentioned. My tv only had digital out put, it took the arc from my tv and transmitted the sound through its device to my 2.1 channel soundbar and also my output speaker.