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Does the Sonos Optical Audio Adapter work in reverse?

  • 20 December 2023
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I’m looking to buy a rather budget sound bar for my beamer setup with the Emotn N1 I bought of Amazon. At the moment the Sonos Ray seems perfect as it fits into my budget and connects to the rest of my sonos ecosystem. The only problem is the connection between beamer and soundbar; the beamer can only connect via hdmi or bluetooth, the Ray has neither, it has an Optical Audio connector though. I found this adapter from Sonos itself (https://www.sonos.com/en/shop/optical-audio-adapter) but it doesn’t mention wether it works the other way around. This might be a stupid question but I just want to be sure that everything will work before I buy the setup. Do you guys think this will work or do you see any other options? Thanks

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Best answer by ratty 20 December 2023, 11:02

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ratty

No, the Sonos adapter is optical-to-HDMI/ARC only. It needs to emulate a TV to be able to talk to Beam/Arc/Amp.

You probably just want a regular HDMI-to-optical audio extractor. They’re pretty commonplace.

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What projector do you use?

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What projector do you use?

I use the Emotn N1 (https://www.amazon.de/Emotn-Lizenziertes-Automatische-Trapezkorrektur-120-Zoll-Bild/dp/B0BQJD43VT)

ratty

That projector does also have a Line Out, so if you weren’t bothered about Dolby 5.1 you could always convert PCM stereo to optical using a cheap ADC.

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