Amazon Basics 4K HDMI to HDMI and Audio Extractor Converter with SPDIF, Stereo Audio Output, Toslink Optical Audio for Apple TV, Fire TV, Fire Stick, Blu-Ray Players, Black

I have been looking for an audio extractor for the Apple TV 4K, for reason that my (old but good) AVR only has HDMI pass through. It does not decode audio. And unlike the previous Apple TV, the latest does not have optical/audio out. There are so many of these audio extractors available, and none have consistently good reviews. I purchased a different one on Amazon which I returned because the video picture was distorted and all snow. In a second attempt I purchased this Amazon Basics extractor. Works great! Picture is no different than without the extractor. And now I have optical out for my AVR. That sound is great as well. Pretty much plug and play device. The only adjustment I made was to the Apple TV audio setting. It did not recognize that Dolby 5.1 was switched on the extractor. However it did allow me to select it. Doing so, surround sound kicked in and the Dolby indicator lit up on my AVR. Sounds great! Even sounds better than the old Apple TV with optical out.

I have a very high end amplifier and speakers, and with our present at home concert requirement (thank you coronavirus), as soon as I projected to a television so my better half could see and hear too, the sound quality was just plain dreadful. I cringed, no matter what I tried. This device fits between the source and the television in the HDMI cable chain and provides "line out" audio from whatever source is sent to the television (note off the air television will not function, although cable will work fine). The impedance match is perfect. For the record every television set I have ever seen has dreadful audio, if you are an audiophile. I use a 4k Chromecast device and my concerts are live quality audio again. This is highly recommended. One misleading aspect of this particular device is that while it does have 3mm stereo out, there is only a single RCA jack, so to the best of my knowledge, there is no way that can carry both channels, slightly misleading specs. That said, a 3mm to RCA output cable performs fine, and my superb quality McIntosh amplifier is now effectively connected to the internet (via Chromecast). This box is trivial to set up. Just plug it in, set your television to whatever HDMI input you plug this box into, and the rest is completely transparent.

I used this to extract Hi-Res (24-bit, 96KHz) Audio from a Panasonic Blu-Ray players HDMI output. I can confirm it works over both the optical and coaxial outputs when connected to a stereo (2-channel) preamp. This got good reviews over at AudioScienceReview. For the price this item worked very well. Do remember that you will need to tweak the settings on the Blu-Ray player. I only tested this on Blu-Ray Audio Disc (Pure Audio). Did not test SACD. Minus 1/2 star for not including a power supply and an other 1/2 star for not retaining the 5.1 setting (necessary to get the Hi-Res) when power is cut and It must be selected manually when powered on.

I have a projector home theater setup with an older, non-HDMI compatible surround sound head unit. This wasn't an issue when I was using an old Xbox one as my media player because the Xbox had a "Toslink" is optical audio out option that could go to the stereo. However, every modern streaming device (Roku, Apple TV, etc) re just HDMI out, so when I switched to a Roku Ultra I had no way to get audio. This worked great, and the 5.1 channel DTS/Dolby surround option (press the button, light turns on) is putting out great audio. Saved me from huge expense and effort of upgrading an older home theater projection setup and stereo. Recommend. I've only had it working for a day, so I'll try to update my review if the product stops working in under a year.

I recently added this extractor to my desktop computer system to add a sound bar. Yesterday my monitor lost signal in an on/off rapid manner. It went away after I got off a banking website that I was on which for some reason I stupidly though it was the issue. This morning, it started doing it again (monitor going black and then regaining signal, on off on off on off. I realized it was the extractor. I unplugged the PC output HDMI cable from the extractor and plugged it back into my monitor. Problem solved. This extractor, or at least the one I got, is junk.

Worked about as well as could be expected. Split the audio signal nicely out of the 4K Roku's HDMI signal to my cheap projector to let me install a surround sound system for my on a budget theater. Super easy to install, just plug in the HDMI cables and your optical audio cable. Feels like it'll hold up forever with the steel case its wrapped up in. It will function with anything that takes HDMI for video/audio and any stereo that takes optical audio. I also wouldn't consider 30hz a limitation for this device, as most professional movies are filmed at 24fps, so it isn't going to have any noticeable stutter or frame drops on anything filmed in the last 100 years. Does not have a noticeable impact on image quality.

I have an older receiver with optical and coaxial inputs but not HDMI. I connected my Blu-ray player to this interface via HDMI, and used the interface's coaxial output to the receiver. It was very easy to set up, and worked perfectly. My sound setup is decent but not great speakers, so I can't speak to the resulting sound quality. Then I connected the interface to the HDMI output from my laptop to extract sound from an MKV file (which was playing perfectly over the laptop speakers, and would play perfectly over TV speakers if a TV were connected to HDMI). I got no digital signal at all on the receiver via the component input. I tried 2 different HDMI cables, and also tried the optical output on the interface. No luck.

Excellent solution for connecting my Amazon 4k stick to my projector and audio system with digital optical input. Believe me, not all splitters that advertise this capability can reliably do it. I tried. This one can.

Does exactly what it's supposed to. In my case it was used as a audio splitter for my Grandma's TV so we could attach a separate headphones while still allowing the TV to control it's own volume. It was placed between a set-top box and the TV.

Works as advertised

Necesitaba un aparato de estos para poder sacar el sonido de la PS5 por un cable de audio óptico, ya que mi monitor no tiene salida de audio ni altavoces y mi barra de sonido sólo dispone de conexión de audio digital y jack 3,5mm. Pues este aparato me ha solucionado el problema 100%. Audio de gran calidad, a través de audio digital, con posibilidad de 5.1 y ningún tipo de retardo entre la imagen y el sonido. Un 10 para amazon. Antes de comprarme el convertidor, lo conecté por cable jack 3,5mm pero el sonido deja mucho que desear si lo comparamos con el audio óptico. También probé con un donge para conectar el sonido por bluetooth a la consola, pero había un segundo de retardo entre imagen y sonido, por lo que era molesto. Este aparato me ha hecho ahorrar unos 200 euros en una nueva barra de sonido que tenga salida HDMI. Amazon nunca defrauda, espectacular.

Funziona alla perfezione. Mi ha permesso di separare il segnale audio e video da un ingresso HDMI per utilizzarli separatamente. La qualità dei segnali in uscita non viene assolutamente intaccata e il dispositivo in se è di buona qualità costruttiva, quindi sembra anche duraturo. Ha anche un led per indicare se è acceso e se sta trasmettendo dati, inoltre è piccolo, leggero, silenzioso e non si scalda mai. Ciliegina sulla torta, mi piace anche la confezione in cui arriva. Lo consiglio!

Funktioniert einwandfrei 👍🏼 Wurde genutzt, um den FireTV-Stick über einen HP-Monitor und eine Teufel-Soundbar laufen zu lassen.