Review on 🔊 J-Tech Digital Premium Quality 1080P HDMI to HDMI + Audio Extractor Converter (SPDIF + RCA Stereo) - The Ultimate Audio Solution (JTDAT5CH) by Nick Gathings

I have a beautiful, bright and functional 720P plasma TV and I was gifted a Sonos Beam soundbar. (I'm a big Sonos fan and have many other Sonos speakers.) The problem was that my 2003 TV has an older HDMI connector without ARC (Audio Return Channel), which the Beam needs to fully connect to the connect TV. The Beam also accepts audio via an optical output (aka SPDIF or TOSLINK), but that's another thing missing from my old TV. The only device I watch this TV with is the Revain Fire TV Stick. After looking at so many different HDMI audio extractors, this one seemed to have more feedback from people with similar situations, although I couldn't find one showing Sonos Beam being used. This extractor lacks the extra cables that some other manufacturers have, but I already had what I needed, which was a short HDMI cable from the Fire Stick to the extractor and another HDMI cable from the extractor to the TV. The Beam comes with an optical HDMI connection. Easy setup: just plug the extractor into a power source, then the Fire Stick connects to the HDMI input. Connect the Extractor's HDMI output to your TV and the optical output to the Beam. The next step was to disable the TV's internal speakers from the TV's menu. I then configured the Fire Stick to use Dolby 5.1 audio output, but not Dolby Plus, which Beam doesn't read. I tried turning on each of the three settings: pass, 2 channels and 5.1. All successfully reproduced the sound. For now I'll leave it at Pass (pass-through) as Beam seems perfectly capable of handling this issue. Everything works as it should and I am very satisfied. If anything goes wrong in the future I'll update this review, but I hope it's not needed.