Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
I've been asked to help connect audio from a consumer device (Apple TV 4K) to an XR18 mixer. The only audio options from the device are toslink or audio over HDMI. Can anyone make a recommendation on either a toslink convertor or an HDMI audio extractor with either RCA or XLR (preferred) outputs? I'm kind of a fish out of water when it comes to consumer audio.
Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
@kmitchell Maybe the ADA 8200 could work. Adat in to XLR out?
Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
In the youth room of my church, they have one of these units. I'm planning on repurposing it for a Bible study TV, audio setup using an MR12, a wireless mic and a powered speaker. Hopefully I'll be able to get to do the setup early this week and will let you know how well the HDMI extractor works.
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Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
Depends on the quality you want. There are a lot of cheap TOSLINK DACs to RCA on eBay/Amazon.
e,g, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265477652360 ... OSw0GNiKHZ~
e,g, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265477652360 ... OSw0GNiKHZ~
Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I'm going to try out one of the HDMI extractors I found on Amazon as well as the toslink convertor @kgallen suggested. I don't think the audio quality has to be spectacular so either of these should be fine.
@GaryH I think that would work but they are on a pretty tight budget. They are a small, mobile, nomadic congregation. It turns out they want to use the Apple TV to Airplay presentations to avoid presenters from having to get into the wiring of the AV setup. I guess they've had some "midnight re-wiring" happen in the past.
@GaryH I think that would work but they are on a pretty tight budget. They are a small, mobile, nomadic congregation. It turns out they want to use the Apple TV to Airplay presentations to avoid presenters from having to get into the wiring of the AV setup. I guess they've had some "midnight re-wiring" happen in the past.
Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
Well, after a quick review of the current AV setup, this got a lot easier. The projector they use for presentations has a 3.5mm audio out jack that mirrors the audio coming into the HDMI port to allow it to be sent to an external sound system. Imagine that. A 3.5mm to RCA/TS adapters or 3.5mm to TS plugs is all that's needed to go into the XR18 combo jacks.
Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
The TOSLINK route would give you electrical isolation. See how you go on with noise.
Re: Looking for Toslink or HDMI Adapter to XR18 XLR
Good point. They have a mobile AV rack and the projector sits on top of it during presentations. Wiring run is less than 6 ft (2 meters) from the XR18 but I'll keep than in mind if it starts picking up noise. I never like to use unbalanced TS connections but not much choice for this setup.