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How to get sound out from Apple TV to your stereo speakers without any extra hardware
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I've found things to be the opposite. My original HomePods have excellent bass, in some cases matching my main speakers and subwoofer. It's in the upper ranges where the gap between them and good dedicated speakers widens.
Well Apple Music lossless now plays on the original HomePod. Not sure about other devices.
Short of a splitter or receiver, something's gotta give. Ditch the Apple TV & get the cheapest mini plugged direct to tv via HDMI (or TB for 4K) & use infuse/plex on the mini with the audio out to your DAC that way.
If you're fixated on the Apple TV, ditch the speakers in favour of something like the KEF LSX II that have airplay & network capabilities - https://uk.kef.com/products/ls50-wireless-2
Or have both with the mini dedicated to film duty & your uber expensive speakers & the apple tv routing to KEFs or similar.
Or get a 2nd hand 3rd gen Apple TV HD that had optical out, but doesn't do 4K.
If you're fixated on the Apple TV, ditch the speakers in favour of something like the KEF LSX II that have airplay & network capabilities - https://uk.kef.com/products/ls50-wireless-2
Or have both with the mini dedicated to film duty & your uber expensive speakers & the apple tv routing to KEFs or similar.
Or get a 2nd hand 3rd gen Apple TV HD that had optical out, but doesn't do 4K.
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The computer tab only recognizes movies with .mp4 format and audio at DD 5.1. It doesn't recognize .mkv and it cannot decode True HD or DTS-HD. Infuse handles them.
Not going to ditch speakers that cost 20K for sure. 🙂))))
The setup works quite well. I'm ok with it for now. The only issue is that without the computer around, I cannot get sound out to speakers from Apple TV. But I doubt that'll ever be an issue.