Digital Audio Out Optical (Connect Speakers to TV)

How to Connect TV Digital Audio Out to External Speakers. This is also known as Toslink and SPDIF.

You'll see all the ways you may connect your tv with an optical port to your speakers / sound system.
You'll probably need a digital audio converter, I'll show you how easy it works.

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[nj]

Finally!!!! After watching so many useless videos about the wireless Sony tv headphones and how to connect them to my tv. This is the only video I found with straight clear answer!! Thank you!

[charleeceejay]

Your're right; time is precious. If your TV doesn't connect with audio via an optical port, go ahead and skip to 1:20. And you did this several times. How thoughtful. Thank you.

[ashoksalhan]

Excellently made video... Clear, concise and supported visually. Thank you

[fastslow]

Thank you for this. The converter in the description was exactly what I needed to hook up my dads old speakers for him :) thanks again man

[joshdax]

I needed this exact video you have no idea. Thanks for this

[sanders]

Very well explained, thanks!
Helped a lot

[aggielonghorn]

Modern TV, old stereo receiver and speakers. The only available "out" ports on the TV are auxillary out and digital optical out. When I first got the television, I had on hand a short cable with an aux jack on one end and red/white RCA jacks on the other. The cable is 10 inches long and I used two RCA couplers to connect it to a longer RCA cable that reachers the receiver. I used that connection to send my TV sound to the receiver. The sound was fine. Thinking it would be an upgrade, I bought a DAC similar to this one in the video and a digital optical cable. I hooked it up and the sound is noticeably lower through the optical line than it is through the aux cable. Both setups connect to the exact same RCA cable that plugs into the input on my stereo receiver - the aux directly with couplers and no DAC and the optical with the DAC in the middle. And yes, the DAC was setup correctly regarding all inputs and outputs. Again, I have sound with both, but the aux sound is louder by quite a bit. Any experiences on what would cause that to be the case?

[pareshprajapati]

Very useful information, video
Thank you 🙏 sir

[mrsticker]

THANK YOU!!!! This exactly what I needed.

[louaguado]

I do it an easy way. Headphone output from my TV into computer speakers. 😊

[fayyazb]

Cool! How to connect from AV OUT port to Speaker with 3.5mm Aux pin?
Tried once but a loud buzz \ hum sound is there with light audio. Let me know if any tip to r3solve this issue.
Thank you.

[Josss]

Hi man! Awesome video.
Maybe what I'm trying to do is a little complicated haha
I have a Smart TV which has Optical Audio Out, as well as RCA.
I'm trying to connect this TV to a Focusrite Scarlett Audio Interface (which doesn't have optical audio input) in order to get the sound out of my Studio Monitors.
Could you help me figuring out how should I do this configuration please? I'm a little bit lost.

Hope you can help me.

Cheers, man!

[johnnyrichard]

Can i use to link up Samsung hwq700a soundbar to sonos mag6r ceiling speakers? DAC unit maybe?

[danielyoguesh]

So do I need RCA to AUX to control volume on my external active speakers?

[marinsusic-omjd]

Hi. I have one question. I conected TV and active speakers with SPDIF but there is no sound. Do I need digital to analog converter to get the sound?

[himanshuk]

Using DAC can i connect 2 home theatre 1 using aux and another using RCA ?

[EK-hpio]

Sucks I have these incredible klipsch speakers that I tried to connect with aux on my q80b and find myself here 😂

thanks though man I ordered the parts needed for my speakers.

[Artistic_show_]

Can you help me with my issue? My tv only have s/pdif port and my soundbar have toslink port.how can I connect them?

[tonymanzo]

Do you have eArc, my new Samsung tv doesn’t have an optical output, but I have a Bluetooth capable tv . I bought a Bluetooth receiver and paired to my tv problem solved on one hdmi. My cable box has an optical output so I can use that to feed the optical in on my surround sound, Problem solved here too, I bought an d since returned an hdmi with an optical breakout to provide signal but I could not get it to work. My Samsung tv tv defaults to tv speakers which I have turned to zero. I have to pair every time I use the Bluetooth, makes for using my firestick kinda wonky I can’t use video out of my stereo, an unstable picture when going through the Bose surround system video out, my other tv I had for 16 years ad no issue, got a bigger tv.

[finshootme]

So my TV has digital optical out and trying to connect to older dvd surround system and it has optical out as well but also digital in with some kind of jack hole .
Optical out to optical out, no sound . Do i need somekind of adapter to optical to digital jack