[mythtv-users] AndroidTV and leanfront: occasional 'ear-protection' limit

[John Pilkington]

On 13/05/2023 08:31, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2023 19:51:58 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>> John Pilkington wrote:
>>>
>>> Perps that was too much info.  I want analog audio, which the manufacturer
>>> provides only from the headphone socket.  The manufacturer also provides
>>> digital audio, either optically or via HDMI ARC.
>>
>> OK, optical to RCA stereo is easy enough.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/PROZOR-Digital-Converter-Optical-Toslink/dp/B00KNNSKV0
>> $14 and it even comes with the TOSLink optical cable.
>>
>>
>> or for $28 you can get one that will do HDMI audio extraction as
>> well:
>> https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Multifunction-Extractor-Adapter-Toslink/dp/B07PWJSJ97
>>
>> Either one of these should solve your problem by moving the
>> output from the safety-switched headphone jack to the line-level
>> digital outputs, which then get decoded into analog.
>>
>> -dsr-
> 
> Of course, if you use a device like that, you have to remember that it
> will contain a DAC (digital to analogue converter), and at that price
> the DAC will be pretty bad quality and hence the sound quality will
> suffer.  Of course, the DAC in your TV may already be pretty bad as
> TVs are not renowned for good quality audio.
> 
> I always ignore the TV's audio and get digital audio sent to a good
> quality DAC.  After my excellent old CD player/DAC developed a fault,
> I recently invested in one of these:
> 
> FiiO Q7

<snip, but the reviews are 'interesting'>

Thanks for these suggestions and comments.  I have to say that although 
my stereo system is old, the ears are even older, so I shall most likely 
live with what I have.

But it may be worth noting that the digital audio outputs from this 
lowish-end TV have lower nominal specs than many likely input streams.

John