Features:

  • Converts Coaxial or Toslink digital audio signals to analog L/R audio
  • Supports sampling rate at 32, 44.1, 48 and 96 KHz
  • 24-bit S/PDIF incoming bit stream on left and right channels
  • Easy to install and simple to operate
  • Provides electromagnetic-noise-free transmission
If you only hear static, don’t fret!

I had the same experience as many others here: I setup the cables perfectly, turned everything on, and got nothing but static. Not exactly how you pictured a 5 Star review starting, huh? Before packaging everything up and starting a return, i decided to check out these reviews. And here i read multiple accounts about people having the same issue with a simple fix. If you set this up and hear static, check your TVs audio settings. It may be under the “advanced” or “expert” settings. You need to make sure it’s set to PCM (or an equivalent) and NOT Dolby. This converter cant handle the Dolby signal. (Which makes sense. You’re buying this converter to take an optical audio signal and convert it to the white/red left right RCA signal). I made the adjustment on the tv, and instantly it’s working perfectly. My father in law is happy to have his new 4K tv wired in with his audio receiver from the 70s. I never imagined I’d see a 4K tv and phonograph plugged into the same unit! Quick note: this adapter DOES require power and comes with a charger. Just wanted you to know in case you’re running short on outlets.

theater like experience while watching movies

I wanted to use my older Onkyo receiver and Bose speakers with my new TCL Roku TV, instead of going to the expense of buying a soundbar. The Musou Digital Optical Coax allows me to to connect to my Onkyo receiver and Bose speakers giving me a surround sound, theater like experience while watching movies. I like this adapter because, I can still use my tv speakers at the same time, I am using the stereo speakers. This setup also allows you to control your tv speakers with the tv remote without going into tv settings and turning your tv speakers off. This is a very small box, the only thing you will need are a red and white composite cable to hook your receiver to the adapter. I would highly recommend this product, because many people have older analog equipment that works perfectly, but it lacks the Optical or HDMI ARC outlets for the newer smart tv's. This saved me hundreds of dollars.

LG TV Owner's Read

I used this to hook up my headphones Sennheiser RS120 On-Ear Wireless RF Headphones with Charging Dock to my LG TV LG Electronics 43LF5900 43-Inch 1080p Smart LED TV (2015 Model). When I first hooked up the converter all I got was static and literally filled out the return form on Amazon to return this product. I then read all of the reviews with LG TV's and decided to give it another try. The key for me was to actually read the darn instructions. First go into the TV sound out settings and select Audio Out (Optical/HDMI/ARC). Then select Digital Sound Out and change Auto to PCM. Turn off your TV then follow the instructions that came with the device. Hook up the toslink cable from the TV to the converter, hook up the RCA jacks (headphones/speaker) and then the power cord to your converter. When you turn the TV back on you should get sound via your speakers/headphones (with the Sennheiser headphones you will have to use tune button to fine tune the sound). Good luck!

A good product.

We have a surround sound system that only takes red and white component cord in, so when our new TV only supported digital optical out we ordered this as a solution. PROS:. WORKS GREAT, is a very sturdy feel, comes with a digital optical cord. CONS: The red status light doesn't shut off, not a huge issue but for some people it might be, and if the audio out (on our TV) is set to TV and surround sound, there might be an annoying ringing, not all the time only on Netflix and Hulu, DVDs do fine with TV and surround sound. In conclusion, I would recommend this as a good solution when an adapter is needed.

It works!!!

My new LG TV doesn't have Bluetooth-out premium feature. So I attached the convertor box via toslink to the TV's optical-out port. Then, from the other end of the box, connected red & white RCA cables with a female port (which I'm holding up in the first picture) to the male end of my small 3rd party Bluetooth transmitter (which of course has to be paired to ur headset). I had to have the LG sound out set to optical and then PCM (not Auto, the default), see 2nd photo. And it works!! Awesome. I don't have to buy a new TV.

Old Stereo with new Smart TV and no way to hook up sound to pass through

I have an older amplifier, stereo, CD, AM/FM stereo set up that is old technology, meaning it's still going, and going... and going. Our last TV had the RCA Audio jacks, so I did the RCA to RCA cord. Fast forward to now -- we just got a new state of the art Smart TV... meaning no RCA anything!! YIKES! Because our house is wired for the stereo speakers throughout, including outdoors on our patio, I really needed a way to work with this. In reviewing my connections, it looked like an Optical to Analog RCA converter was the ticket -- got this, plugged it in, added the optical cord from the TV to this converter, and the RCA cord from the stereo to the converter and instant success!! It's got much better sound than our last setup, and also does NOT have the time lag like our last RCA to RCA setup. Means we can not only stream stuff outside, but also use our stereo speakers to listen to at the same time we're watching the show. Great little product that did the job!

WORKS FOR 2016 SAMSUNG UHD KS8000! Use PCM setting for Audio Format...

Yes this works to hook up a stereo receiver with only RCA input to a 2016 Samsung KS 8000 UHD TV. which doesn't have RCA cable output! Those were the exact words I was looking for when I was trying to figure out which converter to buy out of the dozens of choices and untold apparent issues regarding whether it can decode 5.1 audio or Dolby Digitial output down to a 2-channel receiver. OMG. Well guess what, this unit can through the Optical port. But the overall issue of what works with which TV is very confusing to for a layperson! So this TV does have Dolby digital 5.1 output. And the Optical Output option will work: Maybe that port doesn't send a Dolby signal? I don't know. It's quite simple: the optical output port with the optical cables attach to the TV side of the converter and the RCA cables from receiver attach to the opposite side of the converter. I had to fool around with the TV settings and that's probably the tricky part: Here's what worked: Go into Settings----Sound----Select Speaker= "Audio Out/Optical" ---then -- Expert Setting -- HDMI Audio Format= "Bitstream" --- Audio Format = "PCM". That should do it! It's a small unit of good quality. And they offer a 30 day return and 24 hour customer service (which I didn't need). Mainly,though, it works and I don't have to go out and buy a Soundbar or bluetooth speakers, so I'm happy!

If you setup correctly it works. Select Standard Audio not Dolby Digital in your Satellite/Cable/TV or you will get STATIC!

Purchased this to get Optical Audio from DirecTV Sat box to my whole home audio amplifier which only has RCA inputs. I'm very happy I found a solution. For the money it's an excellent product. ONE THING YOU MUST KNOW! In your cable or satellite box settings you need to select Standard Audio and NOT Dolby Audio or Dolby Digital Plus for this to work. If you select the others you will just get LOUD STATIC. Every once in a while I will turn the system on and get nothing but loud static, then I have to go check my Sat box and make sure it hasn't reset or something and select Standard Audio again. Depending on your setup you may need to make that change in your TV settings. I'm pulling sound from my DirecTV box.

A must have item to connect wireless headphones to TV AND DVD player simultaneously

We bought two of these little converter boxes because we have two sets of wireless headphones (one for each TV in separate rooms). The problem arises when trying to connect the headphone transmitter to BOTH the Cable/Dish box and a DVD/BLURAY player. Originally, I tried using a Y-splitter to connect the output from the Cable/Dish box and the DVD player into the wireless headphone transmitter - it worked somewhat and the cabling can get a little wild. It turns out that if your TV is one of the more recent models, it might have an optical output port in the back. If it does, then you can use this optical audio output port to send the audio signal directly from the TV (regardless if you're watching a cable/satellite station or a DVD movie) to a wireless headphones transmitter. It worked like a charm and reduced the need for extra cables.

REPLACED $85 GEFEN CONVERTER WITH THIS MUSOU. WORKS GREAT, VERY RELIABLE!

This is an excellent D/A converter. I paid $85.00 for GEFEN D/A converters for my two LG Smart TVs because of the Dolby capability. LG Product Service told me that a straight PCM converter might not work, even though there is an "Auto / PCM" selection in the setup. The problem was that it seems the converter often could not make up its "autosense" mind whether to go Dolby or PCM, and would put out nothing. It might work on one HDMI input, but not the others. Finally, I got disgusted, wrote off the $85.00 and bought the Musou with Toslink cable, just in case the GEFEN cable was bad. Since the Musou uses the same power supply (5 V.) and plug as the GEFEN, I just plugged the Musou into the GEFEN Toslink cable and power supply. Be sure to set your TV for PCM audio output. The only negative is that the 5 V. power supply cable is very short, thus the need to use the GEFEN power supply.

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