Cubilux USB C to SPDIF Transmitter, Unidirectional Type C to Optical Audio Output Adapter with 192KHz/24bit DAC for MacBook Pro/Air, Laptop, Computer

Was as intended. This does work with PS5 if you have a Astor mix amp. This is for the type C

Works great, plug and play. As long as you source is 5.1 it will go through fine. Optical still of use with a laptop to get to a soundbar that didn't have ability to use all of the resolution of my monitor surround sound.

I plugged it in line from my Mac Mini into the optical input on my pre-hdmi receiver and it worked great. No question better (5-channel digital) sound than my previous headphone jack stereo setup.

As far as the physical product itself it seems good overall but the wire doesn't seem that sturdy so I'm concerned how long it will last. The adapter does output dolby digital but does not work for my intended purpose so I'll be keeping it but more for "just in case" purposes. This is in no fault of the product now that I did more research on surround sound/dolby digital. The rest of this review is not related to the product but might help others with the same situation.TLDR - To get surround sound on PC games you need to connect via HDMI or if using toslink/optical a sound card that has dolby/dts encodingI want to get surround sound on my computer for gaming but most games that have surround sound don't have dolby digital. Most PC games that have surround from my understanding are PCM/LPCM multi channel and then a small selection that have Dolby Atmos or dolby digital. Toslink only supports stereo PCM or dolby digital/DTS. Audio over HDMI does support multi channel PCM/LPCM but I'm using a DP monitor so connecting HDMI would make my PC see 2 monitors which has its problems. For my use case to get surround sound from PC games via toslink/optical would require a sound card that has dolby digital or DTS encoding.

I bought this for an option into my DAC. Poor quality and didn't reach the 192khz advertised

I have only had it for a few days and will update if issues happen.Sound wasn't coming from my Beam Gen 2 when using this with the optical to HDMI adapter from my Windows PC, a SPDIF output was showing up in outputs but no sound was coming out, even when plugged into a MBP. I assumed the cable was bad and was going to return it.Before doing that I messed around in the Sonos app for a bit, factory resetting the Beam a few times and re-adding it to the system. I even tried downgrading the Beam to S1, which didn't work and errored out. After re-moving, re-adding and going through the "Pair to TV" option in the app it just suddenly started working.So for anyone having issues getting sound to work with Sonos products, it might just be the app and not the adapter.EDIT: So it turns out it's setting the output to "TV" in sources.

I use this from my Macbook Pro to output sound to a Sonos Ray. It works with zero lag, or at least a lag that is so small that I cannot detect it. The only issue is that at first the Mac allowed me to control the volume, then suddenly that stopped working. In general the Mac assumes that with a digital output such as SPDIF, you will control the volume on the output device, so it disables volume controls on the Mac and Mac keyboard. I downloaded and installed a free app called eqMac that restores volume control through the Mac UI and the Mac keyboard. With that app installed the Sonos Ray functions perfectly as speakers for my Mac.

I use this to connect my work laptop to the third input of my DAC on my audio system. It works, decently well. Plug and play, audio sounds fine, no complaints at first.However once it has been plugged in for an extended period of time, which is only a few days, it will start "resetting" for lack of a better word. Whenever it is not playing audio it will stop sending signal to the DAC entirely, which causes the DAC to stop seeing it as a source. So latency is added. Play am audio file? This will 'wake up' and start playing but not after missing the first few moments of the audio. This happens for notifications. Music. Videos. Anything that outputs audio. And as soon as the audio is done, this will stop sending signal again entirely, dropping off the DAC again. And if your DAC has a source switch relay like mine does letting it do this can wear it out mechanically as well.You have to unplug the adapter and plug it back in to get it to stop doing this. Which, for what should be a plug and forget solution, makes this a really subpar experience for me.