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TV sound through a port

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August 15, 2023
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Hi. I have the following set up in my living room (part of a larger multiroom sonos system):

Sonos Port connected to my 2 active meridian speakers.

I simply (!!) want to connect my TV to that set up so I have better sound quality through the Meridians than the TV speakers. I am NOT bothered about surround sound.

I did this before in an old house with an old TV which had RCA audio outputs…. plugged those into the port (actually a Connect in those days) and hey presto.

However I now have a newer TV which only has an optical digital output. I tried connecting it to a DAC and then old fashioned audio cables into the port. This lead to a MASSIVE audio delay…. completely useless I’m afraid.

So anything I can do to get the audio synced apart from by an old TV with RCA audio out??

Thanks

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Kumar

Test material was Happy Valley on BBC player. All the owts were in good sync!

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Kumar

The audio direct from the Apple TV was ahead of the picture. But, like I said, audio and video at the TV’s own outputs should always be in sync (subject to any manual intervention via its settings). A TV can’t second-guess what it’s unaware of, downstream of those outputs.

Update - my son is so pleased with his HomePod mini pair once it settled down to work flawlessly for music, he decided to replace his Panasonic TV’s Firestick with Apple TV 4K. No issues at all in getting that going, and the user experience is far better than that from Firesticks. And the sound of Apple TV piped direct to the HomePod pair, is in perfect sync with the TV video. So no issues of the kind quoted above which shows that what is happening inside the TV is also influencing final outcomes. And what is happening inside the TV is not consistent across different kinds/makes of TVs.

The sound from just the HomePod mini pair is a big improvement on that from the TV speakers. No atmos - that needs the big HomePod, but that apart I am very impressed with the result. The main TV room set up with a HiFi speaker pair is much better of course, but the trade off for the much smaller form factor of the Minis is surprisingly small, in a small bedroom. And for those that are in the Apple ecosystem, the integration between the phone, the speakers and Apple TV/Siri is very slick. If the TV video syncs well, this is clearly the way to go for those that are invested in the Apple world, with the full size Home Pods for those that must have Atmos.

ratty

And the sound of Apple TV piped direct to the HomePod pair, is in perfect sync with the TV video.

There’s evidently a trick available to iPhone users to sync the audio and video where the source is Apple TV and the audio is rendered by HomePods. Presumably the iPhone ‘watches’ the screen while it ‘hears’ the HomePods.

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Kumar

There’s evidently a trick available to iPhone users to sync the audio and video where the source is Apple TV and the audio is rendered by HomePods. Presumably the iPhone ‘watches’ the screen while it ‘hears’ the HomePods.

Tongue in cheek, or serious?!

I don’t know enough where this tech stands today, to know the answer to that question!

ratty

There’s evidently a trick available to iPhone users to sync the audio and video where the source is Apple TV and the audio is rendered by HomePods. Presumably the iPhone ‘watches’ the screen while it ‘hears’ the HomePods.

Tongue in cheek, or serious?!

Serious. I was interested in syncing audio/video using an Apple TV 4K to some AirPods but (a) the feature doesn’t work with AirPods, only speakers that can be ‘heard’, and (b) I don’t have an iPhone (but could perhaps have borrowed one). Since the Apple TV’s audio -- via BT to AirPods -- was so wildly out of sync with the new Sony’s picture I gave up and mothballed the ATV.

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Kumar

Serious. I was interested in syncing audio/video using an Apple TV 4K to some AirPods but (a) the feature doesn’t work with AirPods, only speakers that can be ‘heard’

I only use a Mac and Apple TC because both suit my lower levels of tech savvy; I use my son’s handed down iPhone because I don’t have to pay obscene money for it. My son is Full On Apple, so I will see if his latest model AirPods show any sync issues and post here.

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Kumar

AirPod Pro synced with the video on first use.