topic Re: ARC/optical sound constantly starts and stops - BRAVIA KD55XH9005BU in Android TV

ARC/optical sound constantly starts and stops - BRAVIA KD55XH9005BU

ben_12357456 — Sun, 09 May 2021 15:32:45 GMT

I am trying to connect my Sony Bravia TV to my home theatre amplifier via ARC, my home theatre only has analogue phono connections so I've been trying different ARC/optical audio extractors, however after trying three the same problem exists so I'm worried it might be the TV.

The issue is whenever sounds starts or stops (pausing or resuming video/audio, switching between video previews in Netflix, changing inputs) there is a loud pop that comes through the amplifier, this doesn't happen if I connect a different optical source to the audio extractors, only through the TV via ARC or optical.

Connecting the headphone output of the TV to the Amplifier RCA input doesn't produce the same problem.

It seems like the TV is starting and stopping the audio stream rather than just outputting no audio, is there a way to disable this?

Re: ARC/optical sound constantly starts and stops - BRAVIA KD55XH9005BU

kinggo01 — Fri, 14 May 2021 09:55:42 GMT

Try installing KODI, it has an option to keep audio device alive all the time so see if that helps. Sure, even if it does, it means nothing outside of the KODI but at least you will know if that's an issue.

Re: ARC/optical sound constantly starts and stops - BRAVIA KD55XH9005BU

Joe_Dohn — Fri, 14 May 2021 15:26:52 GMT

@ben_12357456 does this happen on the latest software version for you as well?