Time for a rethink

[Dave2002]

It's on a Sony TV set.

Single room. KISS is my watchword !

I think some Sony TVs do indeed have a jack socket doubling up as an optical out - see https://www.avforums.com/threads/dig...round.1305576/ - this could be similar to Apple's approach to headphone sockets - on some machines.

If you have a DAC you could try connecting it to that by an optical cable. Check the model. You might need to buy one of those small adapters which go on the end of an optical cable and look a bit like a headphone jack plug if your optical cable doesn't have one already.

Single room does mean that you don't really need to network or stream video/audio I guess, which does keep things simpler.

Really not quite sure what you're trying to achieve. You could get an AV receiver/ AV amp, and feed the digital signals through that - either source -> AV -> TV, or TV -> AV ->speakers for sound .... various possibilities. If you go the AV route, then HDMI cables should give the best options. Various options also depending on whether the speakers get driven by an AV amp, or by the TV.

If you were even to think of trying the digital out (optical) you'd need a DAC or AV amp to feed that into, and as noted in the forum pages, you would probably only get stereo, or maybe one of the Dolby surround modes.

You could also just use the jack socket effectively as a LINE OUT output, and perhaps use an adapter cable if necessary to feed into an analogue amp - stereo only.

[richardfinegold]

I think some Sony TVs do indeed have a jack socket doubling up as an optical out - see https://www.avforums.com/threads/dig...round.1305576/ - this could be similar to Apple's approach to headphone sockets - on some machines.

If you have a DAC you could try connecting it to that by an optical cable. Check the model. You might need to buy one of those small adapters which go on the end of an optical cable and look a bit like a headphone jack plug if your optical cable doesn't have one already.

Single room does mean that you don't really need to network or stream video/audio I guess, which does keep things simpler.

Really not quite sure what you're trying to achieve. You could get an AV receiver/ AV amp, and feed the digital signals through that - either source -> AV -> TV, or TV -> AV ->speakers for sound .... various possibilities. If you go the AV route, then HDMI cables should give the best options. Various options also depending on whether the speakers get driven by an AV amp, or by the TV.

If you were even to think of trying the digital out (optical) you'd need a DAC or AV amp to feed that into, and as noted in the forum pages, you would probably only get stereo, or maybe one of the Dolby surround modes.

You could also just use the jack socket effectively as a LINE OUT output, and perhaps use an adapter cable if necessary to feed into an analogue amp - stereo only.

ld not find BT speakers acceptable at this point.
Since the system is to be used for movies only, he could also use BT speakers, either as surrounds, or for the whole set up. His AVR would have to be BT compatible with them. For moviews, this should be good enough audio, and no wires required. If music listening was to be a priority, then I would not find BT speakers acceptable at this point

[Anastasius]

What are BT speakers ?

[richardfinegold]

What are BT speakers ?

Bluetooth

[Anastasius]

Ah, OK, thanks.

Over this side of the pond, BT usually means British Telecomm !

[DracoM]

Windows 10 just sent out a little ask: how favourably would you recommend Windows 10 to friends?
1-5, where 5 is ecstatic yes.

I gave it 1 and explained why.