HDMI Audio Extractor

Mar 12, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 4 Replies

We've downsized, still unpacking after a couple of months.



Today, I wanted to connect the stereo system up. We have a corner unit TV stand thing, but I found that I can't quite fit in both the amplifier and the CD player - they're both venerable 'HiFi separates'. Of course, the CD player is mostly empty space inside.



Our Blu Ray DVD player (which is much smaller) doesn't have audio outputs. One solution is using the TV headphone output into the amplifier, but that's quite a lot of menu fiddling and I think SWMBO's head would explode.



So I was looking for a smaller CD player or a DVD player with audio out when I came across 'HDMI Audio Extractors' available for a few quid. ISTM that one of those would 'tap off' the digital audio from the DVD player (in this case playing audio CDs) and provide a line level analog stereo pair for the amplifier.



Do I have the right end of the stick?


Yup, I have one setup where I use a regular HDMI output Chromecast to drive a monitor, and use a HDMI audio extractor to feed the audio out to a separate amp. It works nicely, cost about a tenner IIRC.

No optical output? Would have thought that was pretty standard on a blu ray player.

Of course, not so useful if you don?t have an optical input on your amp? ;-)

Tim

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Thanks, worth checking before I part with my hard-earned drinking voucher.

If you do, it should work for the Blu-Ray player and obviate the need for the DVD player to even be in the set-up.

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