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

This Tendak is the ONLY solution that I could make work. Samsung 85" TV ONLY has HDMI Output (ARC.) HDMI to Klipsch Soundbar with Wireless Subwoofer. DESIRE to SPLIT the ARC Out to the Klipsch (while maintaining the HDMI Control) & Feed to a 12-Channel Amplifier for a Whole House Audio System. -Anything on the TV plays through the Soundbar (with sub) and the whole house audio system. --Streaming, gaming, news, sports, music, whatever. This unit worked PERFECT. FIRST Try. Realizing my specific situation is a little unique, this box delivered exactly what I needed and EXACTLY what it said it would.

Works great at splitting the audio arc so you can setup multiple audio speakers. I have a surround sound speakers set up with a separate soundbar. (Sony HDMI ARC and Sennheiser Via Optical). It sounds amazing. I tried a couple of other solutions... even hiring best buy to come out... and they couldn't figure it out... Finally found this device, and it actually preforms as advertised. Highly recommend!

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.

I'm using it to extract the audio signal from the HDMI connection from my TV to my Receiver. The extracted audio goes into a Hearing Aid transmitter box so I can listen to the TV sound via my hearing aids while the sound also comes through the speakers. Unfortunately the power on/off via the TV remote control seems to have gotten lost in the box (CEC)

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.

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.

Didn’t work for me. May be my equipment I guess.

This little guy worked exactly as it should. No problems at all. Set up could not have been simpler. I can now listen to high quality audio using this extractor with HDMI/ARC and OPT and then connecting to my vintage Yamaha A-500 integrated amplifier. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!