Optical digital audio converter (for headphone jack)

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New shiny TV will be with me soon https://www.johnlewis.com/samsung-u...-tvplus-active-crystal-colour-silver/p3215475

It doesn't have a headphone jack with it.

I have a Bose subbwoofer and speakers I use for the TV. This bose companion has a standard headphone jack.

The man at JL said I would need a Optical digital audio converter.

I've had a look but no idea what I need :thinking:

Do I need one like this from Maplin https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-mini-tos-to-digital-optical-adapter-a61xf

or something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoteck-Al...ter+headphone+jack&refinements=p_76:419158031


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I don't know, tbh.

The hi-fi world is so full of snake oil and bs.

i've heard good things about the Cambridge Audio DAC but it's a lot more expensive and probably, for what you want, is no better.
 
simon ess said:
I don't know, tbh.

The hi-fi world is so full of snake oil and bs.

i've heard good things about the Cambridge Audio DAC but it's a lot more expensive and probably, for what you want, is no better.
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If I can get the adapter for it it will save me having to by a bluetooth speaker for it. The Bose speakers I have are ideal for me watching films.
 
We use a yamaha cinema amp with the 49 as you have bought and I feed that from the optical out socket. I suspect using that would be the way. You just need a dac to convert it.
 
You do need to change the settings on the set from internal speaker to optical put to enable it
 
I had exactly the same issue with my TV, I don't know why they are so stingy with connection options these days.

Anyway, I just got one of these cheap dacs off ebay purely to get it up and running and check that everything functioned as it should, with the expectation that later I would drop some cash on something a bit (or a lot) better.
turns out two years on it's still working and I have never had any complaints with the sound quality to make me want to upgrade it. Admittedly my set up is not particularly high end, just a pair of reasonable book shelf speakers running of a Cambridge audio amp, a higher resolution set up may show up some failings in the cheap dac.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digital-C...380856?hash=item2ee587d878:g:PPcAAOSwTZ1XnvlP
 
bass_junkie83 said:
I had exactly the same issue with my TV, I don't know why they are so stingy with connection options these days.

Anyway, I just got one of these cheap dacs off ebay purely to get it up and running and check that everything functioned as it should, with the expectation that later I would drop some cash on something a bit (or a lot) better.
turns out two years on it's still working and I have never had any complaints with the sound quality to make me want to upgrade it. Admittedly my set up is not particularly high end, just a pair of reasonable book shelf speakers running of a Cambridge audio amp, a higher resolution set up may show up some failings in the cheap dac.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digital-C...380856?hash=item2ee587d878:g:PPcAAOSwTZ1XnvlP
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Do you power it from the mains or can it be powered from the tv itself?
 
It can be powered from the tv itself, but I don't. It is powered via a usb cable and following the trend of stingy connections on TV's, mine only has one. I also have a chrome cast also powered via a usb cable.

Whenever I wall mount tv's now, I use a socket with usb outputs and power these devices that way.

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Mr Bump said:
You do need to change the settings on the set from internal speaker to optical put to enable it
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Just the once unless you want to change back to the TV internal speaker. We solely use the amp for all TV listening so just set and forget
 
neil_g said:
optical is arguably the better connection for outputting sound from a TV. it allows for multi channel outputs for HD/surround etc. most modern soundbars will be optical.
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Coax digital would be better but TV never seem to have them
 
neil_g said:
Digital is digital really
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to a degree but coax transmission is far superior when you move up a notch.
optical is a cheap way of doing it as you do not need extra digital jitter clocks and takes up less space in your TV
think about it this way why turn a digital signal into light to then turn it back into digital 3 feet away?
 
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