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Originally Posted by jstnstr
Thanks for the input! Sounds like I need to do a bit more research. So you are saying that even with the converter, to use my sound bar as the center speaker that I will need to have a receiver with 'pre-outs'? No-way no-how not going to work otherwise?
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Not that I know of. The problem is that your soundbar is expecting a "line level" input that it would then amplify. The speaker terminals of a receiver put out an already amplified signal. In theory, you might be able to take the audio out of your TV (which is likely optical) and split that signal to your receiver and soundbar, but I can't imagine that you wouldn't be creating a latency issue and therefore have the sound out of time sync between your soundbar and receiver. If your soundbar had an audio out, or your TV had two audio outputs (highly unlikely) you might not have this problem, but you're still dealing with giving up higher end audio formats (which may be entirely acceptable to you ... just know what you're buying).