HDFury 4K Arcana 18GBPS

I have used a hdfury vertex in the past before Sonos finally added support for DTS to the playbar, it was necessary to use the vertex with my Sony TV otherwise I would get silence when playing something with a DTS audio track.I have a Philips Picomax projector, and in order to get sound to my Sonos beams, I have to use a dummy audio cable to silence the internal speaker on the projector, and I then use the arcana in “beam” mode which is fed from a NVIDIA shield, the HDMI output goes to the projector and the ARC output from the arcana goes to the beam, the arcana presents itself as a ARC “TV” and the beam then plays the audio!Perfect!No problems for my gen 1 beam. One thing you must do is that if you change audio settings on your source, then you should cycle the audio on all the parts of the system (in my case I restart the shield and the beam) so that everybody gets to negotiate what sound formats are available, if I change any audio settings on the shield I restart both thr shield and the beam EVERY TIME. If you don’t do this, you might start fiddling with audio and then find that you’re getting stereo PCM output when playing something you know everything in thr chain can play correctly.Been there, got the t shirt many times over, so now I just restart everything and I don’t have any issues.The arcana is working absolutely spot on for me, I can’t comment on its eARC abilities since I don’t have eARC, but its ability to appear as an ARC TV to the beam now means I get great sound on the projector.It’s not a cheap device (although much cheaper than the other vertex) but without it my sound options are much more limited since I then have to use optical audio which severely limits the supported formats.If you’re looking to use this with a Sonos beam, I can recommended it.

Finally a way to get dolby atmos back from my fire cube3 to sound bar after it stoped. Now have full atmos and video is brighter and more colourful a very worth wile product that dose what it says and so simple to use.

It's OK, but it can give you some problems

Was advised that this product would enable me to split the audio signal to a SONOS ARC soundbar and the video to a 4k projector. For a start some detailed instructions in understandable English might help. The information on the display is of no help. Most importantly it doesn't give a stable consistent output to either the Soundbar or the projector. Will try a bit longer to get it to work but currently thinking is that it will be returned as not fit for purpose.

Sent mine back, thought I’d save on getting a new TV but you’re probably better off putting the money towards a new TV which is what I had to do as this is a pain and certainly not worth over £200

Plug and play solution for Sonos Arc lipsync issues.