Also have this setup. Fantastic speakers but the lack of HDMI is the downer. Having to rely on Optical is fine for consoles with the port but now we have to rework things. Guess I have to get a HDMI/Optical Toslink thing and make do. Shame. Don't really want to get rid of great speakers, just because of the port loss.
TCL at least have optical out, but there's often a lot of additional lag. Sounds like it's a common problem with TVs that have a Roku OS.
I got the impression Sony was still going to support USB, which should be okay-ish for a lot of headsets. Do the DAC/Amps you're talking about work on PS4? If so, they should (emphasis: should) be okay on PS5 too.
Oh idk. I haven't owned a Sony system in a while. I know the PS3 it's capable of recognizing certain DACs from the USB. I am more talking about external Audiophile level DACs.
I don't have a source so don't quote me on it, but last I heard it wasn't a feature they were looking to implement.
if there is quality loss or laggy, it's extremely minimal. I have one in my living room and I don't notice any
Everything goes into the TV via receiver. That's why modern receivers have 5-10 HDMI inputs.
That's what I do with my DAC and speakers. It's not that expensive to setup. In my setup though it is just a splitter so have to remember to switch off the speakers when I want to use headphones...
I intended on following up with some of the other posts here later, but since you replied to me directly:
Current TV is a cheaper one from 2007 so probably not, but I'll check.
Ok got it. I'll have to check if my tv supports the formats, as I said above, probably not.
Some receivers do passthrough if the receiver is off, so it won't have to be on
It's USB, so most likely. This is about the optical port.
I have a LG OLED TV from 2015 (I think) and I only get stereo from the TV optical throughput. No DD5.1 no DTS (the two old formats that Toslink supports). I can get both the DD5.1 and DTS when plugging receiver directly into PS4 however. I think this is generally the case with most TVs that are not absolute newest from what I've heard.
Make sure audio out is set to bitstream on both the TV and the PS4 (not PCM)
My Onkyo receiver has that feature(standby) where you can set it to the last used hdmi port or dedicate a specific hdmi port to passthrough when it's powered off. Another thing to be aware of though is that there isn't an offical hdmi 2.1 receiver released so far so you would be bottlenecked to 4k60fps(depending on your receiver and tv capabilites).
I mean, you can always just use an extractor at that point and create an optical port. Optical is old tech for audio. The bandwidth is severely limited and it can't carry HD audio formats.
There's a lot of them already available for around $20 and up. The only thing I don't like is that all of them seem to require am external power source.
