HDMI Earc/Arc Audio Extractor/Adapter, HDMI Earc/Arc to RCA R/L, Optical, 3.5mm Audio Converter

Ok, here is my 2 cents. I have a Bose V35 system and I really enjoy it. I know that out of all the home theater systems Bose is the not an open source and improvements and updates are not available pr rare. It's a damn time capsule, one I payed good money for and unless it dies on me, its staying where it is. With an optical cable to my TV my 5.1 experience was just OK. This seemed like a good affordable gamble on improving my listening experience accessing e-arc. Nothing else seemed possible. To my surprise my center & surround speakers have improved and make my viewing more emmersive. Downside, to now access my V35 console I have to disconnect the box and return to optical mode. I know the Bose limitations and a regular AV perhaps would make it easier. All I wanted was better sound and I got it. I'm not upgrading my system so is is as good as it is going to get.

This device is doing just what I needed. Recently, in discussion with the very helpful salesman at Best Buy, I learned that none of the new TVs have analog audio output jacks any more. I use my TV with sound output connected to a stereo this way. I got a new Samsung TV and therefore needed an audio extractor. At first I tried an optical converter but found that the volume and mute controls on the TV remote did not function this way, and I didn't want to use multiple remotes. I purchased this sound extractor, connected an HDMI cable from the eArc output of the TV to the input of this device, and the RCA audio cables from the stereo to the device outputs. The next step was to set up eArc on the TV, which required 2 steps. First I set the sound output to eArc but did not get any sound. There is another setting where I needed to enable eArc. And that's it. I have TV sound from my stereo and control volume and mute with the TV remote.

Initially I was worried about only having eARC input, relatively higher price compared to similar products, and small number of reviews but finally give this a try for the supposed ease of use and I agree! I have it working with a LG C4 and for me it seems to require eARC support enabled. I did notice some of my "8k"/eARC supported cables not being able to mute/change volume output of RCA but switching to a different cable solved that issue. I tried HDMI audio out also but since I am using a 2 channel setup and RCA outputs support mute and volume control, I sticked to RCA outputs. Box says 192khz/24bit which should be good enough for Blu Ray sources and it doesn't sound any different to me. So far extremely happy with this (can truly "set it and forget it"). PS: Lowered this to 4 stars because encountered times when volume control on RCA output stops working and do need power cycling... PPS: I don't feel like debug this anymore... It works most of the time but does "randomly" stop working with my LG C4 every so often.

It's not really this doohickey's fault that it's hard to use. If Arc and EArc actually worked, you wouldn't need it. I had trouble setting it up, but long story short, it's because you still need to set your tv and receiver up correctly in order to take the correct signal. I have: a TCL QM7K TV that I had to disable EArc on (so it would only output arc) a FireTV stick that I had to set to Dobly Digital Plus (not auto) a Marantz SR5007 7.1 receiver that I had to use the non-arc hdmi port on Or I could just use an optical port, which worked right away. Problem is the optical signal cut out most of the base and sounded notably flat to me(and I'm not an Audiophile). I got this because my receiver could only pass through a 4k30hz signal and my TV requires 4k60hz or it goes down to 1080p. Update: Mine stopped working after a few weeks. I'm not sure if it died, or if something in the HDMI handshake changed.

Works great. Is versatile in that it can export the audio signal four different ways. Needed this as a new TV that I purchased only has an HDMI and HDMI eArc ports on it along with a USB-a port. The TV is smaller size as I'm space constrained as to where it has to be placed hence the lack of ports. But this allows me to feed the small sound bar and an optical run to the stereo system. It's pretty small and not that expensive. Well worth it.

This Extractor works very well, the sound is amplified especially if you have great analog soundbar speakers.

EDIT: I originally thought this device didn't support Dolby TrueHD, but that was the fault of my Google TV not able to pass it through. There still is one big criticism. I bought this to bypass the broken ARC port on my 7.2 Yamaha receiver. This solution is great for me since most streaming platforms no longer support S/PDIF formats. I would give 5 stars except for one HUGE issue. After a month of use it would randomly not work. It would randomly switch to stereo despite playing 5.1 content that had worked before. Pressing the button to switch modes would put it back onto stereo. Powering down and restarting the device would sometimes fix this. I've since upgraded to a more expensive device that does not have this issue.

Works great.

simple to set up and easy to use

Worked one and then stopped working waste product with. Compromised quality. Routed earc through this device worked once then stopped switching on