Optical to Coax connection.

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Moved house recently, and unpacked a 20 year old Kenwood 8500 AV amp, Pioneer DVD player, and Mission 752 floor standers that had been in the loft for a few years. Surprisingly they all seem to work fine. However my TV has an optical output and the amp doesn't have that input, what's a decent way to connect them?

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Good point. Should have said RCA male? Only used the R&L red/white in the past, guessing just the yellow now.

Edited by blade7 on Monday 12th April 23:49

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Thanks to you both for your advice

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Even with the volume up it still sounds like it did years ago. I was expecting to have to buy a new amp, but I'll stick with it while it's working.

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I bought the amp new from Richer Sounds after 1995, it was probably old stock. I used it with a Laser disc player and imported discs, films like The Terminator and Jurassic park did sound pretty good through 6 speakers . I had a Yamaha active sub woofer, and ran the rear speakers from another kenwood amp. With a 32" Sony there was more sound than picture.

Edited by blade7 on Tuesday 13th April 18:33

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stevoknevo said:

does the telly have a headphone jack? One of these cables in the required length will do the job if it has www.amazon.co.uk/3-5mm-Phono-Stereo-Audio-Cable/dp...

This is from the TV online manual. Any downside to using the headphone jack over a DAC?

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Toltec said:

dvs_dave said:

Headphone jack to stereo RCA is the way to do it. Did this all the time back in the day to connect tv’s to amps. It’ll also allow you to control the volume via the tv remote.

Just check if the headphone level is controlled on the main volume buttons rather than one buried in the menu.

Looks like the headphone level is controlled in the menu, though there is a another headphone/lineout setting in the menu, and setting that to lineout disables the headphone level.

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dvs_dave said:

Headphone jack to stereo RCA is the way to do it. Did this all the time back in the day to connect tv’s to amps. It’ll also allow you to control the volume via the tv remote.

Bought the cable, and it does work. But seems I have to remove the head phone jack from the TV if I'm not using the amp. And there's not quite as much volume as when there's direct connect to the amp from a DVD player.

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hoegaardenruls said:

One of these might work better TBH..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Toslink-Converter...

I've used one to hook up a XBox One to a Bose desktop speaker setup - works pretty well, although it will be a manual process for switching between TV and amp for sound.

Does this restrict the volume like using the headphone output?

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Thanks for the replies/advice

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Guess I spoke too soon about the amp working fine . I moved it to another room to lay a new floor in the lounge, and now the volume control isn't working properly from the remote. The volume dial on the amp moves really, really slowly now, any suggestions?

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The switch, where is it?

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Turn7 said:

Its the rotary dial you turn…..

So I have to access the rear of the dial?