topic Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion in TV

How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Catdaddy78 — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:46:30 GMT

New customer. How do I set up a soundbar that has only an optical outlet to my pro box without a sound distortion. If there is a sound distortion how do I fix it please. Thank you

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Chris_B — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:01:11 GMT

@Catdaddy78 Can you clarify sound distortion ? Or do you mean picture to sound sync is out ?

Are you connecting this up via the EE box to the sound bar or TV to the sound bar with the optical cable.

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Mustrum — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:38:56 GMT

@Catdaddy78 if you connect the sound bar to the TV, and turn the internal TV speakers off then everything coming via the TV should be good.

If it is anything like the optical lead that came with my sound bar it is well worth investing in a better one. Easily available from Amazon for £5/

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Catdaddy78 — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:06:18 GMT

It's an echoing sound and it's connected to the ee box

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Northerner — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:45:55 GMT

Hi @Catdaddy78

As @Mustrum says the echoing is becase the settings are incorrect and you need to set up your TV to use the soundbar only.

Thanks

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Catdaddy78 — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:29:10 GMT

The soundbar works fine if connected to the tv but if connected to the ee box it echos.

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Mustrum — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:47:08 GMT

@Catdaddy78 we may be missing something here. But why would you want to connect it to the EE box and not the TV?

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Catdaddy78 — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:04:26 GMT

It works fine through my tv when watching the normal tv but doesn't work when I try to watch through the ee box that's why it's connected to the ee box and now its echoing.

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Northerner — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:43:47 GMT

Hi @Catdaddy78

Which soundbar do you own so I can take a look at the instructions.

If it is connected to your TV it should play any sound from any device connected to your TV. If you remove the soundbar does the EE box play sound through your TV speakers.

Thanks

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Catdaddy78 — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:54:24 GMT

It's the AZATOM Studio Pulse 2 Soundbar. The ee box plays through the tv speakers as normal. I think I might have sorted it as an extra speaker through the tv. It means I can use the sound bar remote control though. The optical cable is now in the tv. The tv I have is the sharp aquos.

Re: How to set up a soundbar with optical without sound distortion

Profile closed — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:38:02 GMT

@Catdaddy78

The correct set up is optical out from the TV to your soundbar and leave it there.

Any HDMI devices plugged into the TV should automatically play audio out via the soundbar if the settings on the TV are correct.

I took a look at the user guide for the soundbar and it is a fairly basic unit, so I doubt there are any other settings on it that need to be touched really.

You do need to make sure the Pro Box is set to output audio via HDMI and you can have a play around with Stereo and Dolby settings to see if that makes a difference, otherwise I would be looking at the TV settings personally.