Mine shipped and should be coming in a few days. This was the only game in town for HDMI eARC. I’ll just connect it to the eARC port on my LG OLED and with the neutrik impedance adapter connect directly to an 8341 Genelec.
So I won’t be using the DAC which should be better than it is but it is what it is. I don’t really need any of the other features either since I can Airplay to the Apple TV. Maybe it could be used if I don’t want the TV on. I don’t use Roon (no Apple Music support).
So I guess it’s a $550 hdmi audio extractor in my case. I can only hope I end up finding one of its other features useful.
Very happy to hear about lip sync being solved at least.
I'm using Airplay to stream the audio from my Apple TV to my Cambridge cxn V2.
Apple tv4k and the LG CX seem to have audio dropout issues (cracking and popping sounds) when using the optical out of the LG TV.
I didn't have this problem with the LG TV apps or a firetv. Known issue with apple TVs and LG.
Airplay fixes this problem and I get perfectly lip-sync audio without even using a cable connection.
The apple TV remote is able to adjust the volume while using Airplay.
Airplay is fine for casting music but you will only get 48khz this way.