Hi,
I'm new here. I'm looking for a solution for my desired setup.
I'm german, living in France, being a computer science engineer.
I owned a Panasonic Plasma 42" TV which I exchanged for an LG OLED 55" CX9LA a few weeks ago.
I have a Denon X2300W in a 5.1 installation and some other devices (Linux SAT Receiver, BD Player, amazon TV Firestick) connected to it
all via HDMI.
The TV is connected through HDMI 2 (eARC) to Denon Monitor 1 ARC input.
Works as expected with HDMI CEC switching both on/off.
A year ago (old TV) I wanted to connect a BT 5.0 transmitter to also get the sound on my BT headset. (parallel)
Reason: My wife always thinks that I turn up the sytem too loud, and she doesn't like the subwoofer. (really great in a 40 m2 saloon!)
And when my mother in law is here for a visit my wife and her often start to discuss/talk while the film/crime is just interesting or
someone not talking loud. I just want to look and hear the film.
Seems I'm getting older.. my ears are starting to show degradation... ;-)
Basically: I just want to have sound from any source being currently played via the Denon to arrive at the BT Transmitter parallel to speaker output.
So I bought: A BT 5.0 Transmitter / Receiver with TOSLINK input (Amazon product) and an HDMI Audio Extractor Box from germany based company FeinTech (Ultra-HD HDMI Audio Extractor VAX00102 mit ARC | FeinTech) and put it all together.
TV ARC <--> VAX00102 HDMI IN <--> Denon Monitor 1
VAX Toslink out <--> BT TX in
Result: NO Sound, in any mode (ARC ON/OFF; HDMI downgrade...)
OK, no time to investigate, had some larger works around the house....
Connecting the BT Transmitter to analog headphones out (Denon) is NOT a solution, since this will disrupt output tot the speakers, :-(
Now with the new TV I tried again. Same result, I exchanged the HDMI cables to 4K ARC and..and... capable ones (had to use a longer one for connecting
TV and AVR anyway, because the connectors are on the left side of the TV and the AVR is on the right side and the cable should pass along the
new TV wall mount...)
I checked that the Audio Extractor works: Put between my PC and my 4K PC screen with speakers,
the TOSLINK shows actvity (red) and the BT transmits the sound.(in contrast to the connection AVR/ TV where the TOSLINK cable remains dark/not lit)
Finally I contacted Feintech and explained my problem and asked for possible solution. A tech guy wrote me WHY my configuration does not work, but added no solution.
1. Reason: ARC is a point-to-point connection and the AudioExtractor in the middle will "kill" the ARC transmission.
2. The BT Transmitter can only handle Stereo and I would have to set the source to PCM / Stereo.
Can anyone point me to a working solution?
Perhaps connecting TV to a separate HDMI input or using TV TOSLINK out to Denon TV Audio Toslink IN.
Or a HDMI Splitter to get the signal to the Audio Extractor.
Regarding Stereo on BT Tx: I thought that if the BT Transmitter is having a TOSLINK In, it should be able to convert this to / extract stereo audio.
Anyone already having solved this HDMI sound mystery? Or can explain what's happening/why some things can't/won't work.
Axel
I'm new here. I'm looking for a solution for my desired setup.
I'm german, living in France, being a computer science engineer.
I owned a Panasonic Plasma 42" TV which I exchanged for an LG OLED 55" CX9LA a few weeks ago.
I have a Denon X2300W in a 5.1 installation and some other devices (Linux SAT Receiver, BD Player, amazon TV Firestick) connected to it
all via HDMI.
The TV is connected through HDMI 2 (eARC) to Denon Monitor 1 ARC input.
Works as expected with HDMI CEC switching both on/off.
A year ago (old TV) I wanted to connect a BT 5.0 transmitter to also get the sound on my BT headset. (parallel)
Reason: My wife always thinks that I turn up the sytem too loud, and she doesn't like the subwoofer. (really great in a 40 m2 saloon!)
And when my mother in law is here for a visit my wife and her often start to discuss/talk while the film/crime is just interesting or
someone not talking loud. I just want to look and hear the film.
Seems I'm getting older.. my ears are starting to show degradation... ;-)
Basically: I just want to have sound from any source being currently played via the Denon to arrive at the BT Transmitter parallel to speaker output.
So I bought: A BT 5.0 Transmitter / Receiver with TOSLINK input (Amazon product) and an HDMI Audio Extractor Box from germany based company FeinTech (Ultra-HD HDMI Audio Extractor VAX00102 mit ARC | FeinTech) and put it all together.
TV ARC <--> VAX00102 HDMI IN <--> Denon Monitor 1
VAX Toslink out <--> BT TX in
Result: NO Sound, in any mode (ARC ON/OFF; HDMI downgrade...)
OK, no time to investigate, had some larger works around the house....
Connecting the BT Transmitter to analog headphones out (Denon) is NOT a solution, since this will disrupt output tot the speakers, :-(
Now with the new TV I tried again. Same result, I exchanged the HDMI cables to 4K ARC and..and... capable ones (had to use a longer one for connecting
TV and AVR anyway, because the connectors are on the left side of the TV and the AVR is on the right side and the cable should pass along the
new TV wall mount...)
I checked that the Audio Extractor works: Put between my PC and my 4K PC screen with speakers,
the TOSLINK shows actvity (red) and the BT transmits the sound.(in contrast to the connection AVR/ TV where the TOSLINK cable remains dark/not lit)
Finally I contacted Feintech and explained my problem and asked for possible solution. A tech guy wrote me WHY my configuration does not work, but added no solution.
1. Reason: ARC is a point-to-point connection and the AudioExtractor in the middle will "kill" the ARC transmission.
2. The BT Transmitter can only handle Stereo and I would have to set the source to PCM / Stereo.
Can anyone point me to a working solution?
Perhaps connecting TV to a separate HDMI input or using TV TOSLINK out to Denon TV Audio Toslink IN.
Or a HDMI Splitter to get the signal to the Audio Extractor.
Regarding Stereo on BT Tx: I thought that if the BT Transmitter is having a TOSLINK In, it should be able to convert this to / extract stereo audio.
Anyone already having solved this HDMI sound mystery? Or can explain what's happening/why some things can't/won't work.
Axel