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 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.

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

Doesn’t “extract”.. ARC pass through works but thats it. 3.5mm no output, optical no output, rca no output…..

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 is a tiny device that does the job. I connected it to HDMI-ARC from my Samsung monitor/TV and via high end RCA cables to my Parasound P5 preamp. It works nicely. Sound is great through my hi-fi system. The quality of the RCA audio cables matters. The first set of cables I tried produced no sound output from the Tendak device. Now I hope the device is durable.

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!

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.