Sound bar connections without HDMI

[Beefheart]

Hello, I am thinking about replacing my 5.1 system with a sound bar. If the sound bar has no hdmi how do you connect a blu Ray and the TV to the sound Bar so you can switch between the two? However at times I would still want the TV to play through the tv speakers to keep her indoors happy, the sound bar has one optical and one set of rca

Martin

 

[Glacialpath]

Any particular reason why you would down grade? no offence, i'm sure you have a good reason. The TV will always sound better through your 5.1 sytem but if you go for a Soundbar that will give you and you other half much better sound than the TV speakers.

I would stick with the 5.1 if you could.

As for connections. Until you get a sound soundbar and tell us what connections it has it's hard to give an answer. Also what outputs does you TV have?

 

[duncansbby]

Hi - as most soundbars have HDMI I am thinking that you are considering a Sonos playbar, which only connects via optial audio. In this case the sounbar will output whatever signal is coming from your TV, so check it passes out a dolby signal. If this is the only connection then it will not play your blu-rays in DTS sound.

There are other soundbars in the market that have at leat two HDMi inputs allowing you to connect the blu-ray player directly to the soundbar

sorry - didn't read your post properly - not sure about the RCA inputs

 

[Deleted member 116933]

I think Glacialpath is correct but if have to make the comprimise then make it good B&W, monitor asb2, dali kubik or the arcam solo.

Pseronally if i had to do it i would an amp with a dac build like the Rotel ra12 with some really good speaker like the B&W 685 (is that the new model?) or if you want some serious bang B&W 683 s2.

Essentailly the same as a sound bar but the sound quality would be so much better.

With sort of set up and the a sound bar that dosnt decode DTS and DD you would set your blu ray player and tv to PCM and make connection through optical and coaxal cables.