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

You can’t stream hires lossless (today) so need a wired connection. AppleTV is limited to 48 kHz. My AVR has an internal DAC that supports 24b / 192 kHz but won’t accept via USB. Looked all around for solution because I knew it had to be simple. And it is but everyone only suggested external DAC. This dongle lets you connect directly from iPad or new iPhones using an optical cable. I tried both and works perfectly. Sound quality is noticeably better if you have other good components like amp and speakers. iPad makes nice music display too, just need to figure out way to control remotely.

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.

This 100% works if you want to send Apple Music native digital hi-res music to your DAC. I’m using an iPhone 15 and have the adapter connected to the optical-in on my Oppo BDP-105. Sound quality is great. If you notice any dropouts just download the file to your playlist instead of just streaming. Attached photos of the hi-res file playing on my phone and the readout from the Oppo on the bit rate. Now if we can only get a search filter for all hi-res lossless albums on Apple Music. Who wants to work on this?

If you want to send audio any other way, you're looking at introducing delay, from a network/wireless setup, or degrading audio quality from converting from digital > analog, then back from analog > digital, not to mention EMI. Keeping the signal all digital like this, and using a hard wired connection, is absolutely the best of both worlds. As long as your sample rate/bit depth is the same across devices, this is the only solution you should be looking at. I used it with a 15ft optical cable, and it transmitted just fine.

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 encoding I 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.

Echoing what some others have said, this item was dead on arrival. It's recognized by my devices, but theres no audio output going through. Tried some other cables as well to confirm the issue is with the adapter. Waste of time and money.

Works just as I expected but my iPhone 15 didn’t. Hoping to use the transmitter to connect the iPhone to my stereo’s SPDIF input I found the phone stuttered (jitter perhaps) every few seconds making it unlistenable. I’ll buy another Cubilux adapter when the need arises.

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.

Der Adapter funktioniert tadellos. Ich habe ihn an einer Dockingstation hängen der das Audio Signal von einem MacBook auf einen AV Receiver schicken soll, über ein Kabellänge von 15m. Der Adapter wird direkt erkannt, Treiber oder Konfiguration sind nicht notwendig. Ich konnte in den Mac Einstellungen direkt den optischen Adapter auswählen und der Ton war direkt da wo er sein soll. Ich bin sehr zufrieden, genau die Lösung nach der ich gesucht hatte. Hier gibt es nichts zu kritisieren, absolute Kaufempfehlung.

Well built little adaptor. Very unique as it's the only USB to optical DAC I could find to use with a speaker and headphone amplifier using computer or TV as a source. Very good price and does the job very well, good sound out of it. There were jitter and timing errors twice during my use but very minimal and takes nothing away from this product. If you want to enjoy optical audio from a PC or smartphone this is definitely a go to.

I bought this Cubilux USB-C to SPDIF transmitter to add an optical output to my devices, and it has worked exactly as I hoped. I use it to connect my iPhone to my Chord Mojo 2, and also my laptop to the Mojo 2, and in both cases the sound quality is very good – clean, detailed and noise-free. Setup is as simple as it gets: plug it into the USB-C port, connect an optical cable to the DAC, and it’s ready to go. No drivers or fiddling with settings were needed in my case. It locks onto the signal reliably and I haven’t had any dropouts or glitches. The build quality feels solid for such a small device, and it’s compact enough to throw in a bag for travel. For anyone who wants to add a proper digital optical output to a phone, tablet or laptop and feed a high-quality DAC like the Mojo 2, this is a very handy little adapter. I’m very pleased with it and happy to recommend it.

Werkt probleemloos, geen stroom nodig.

I own a couple of spdif devices that are fantastic. The Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless and the Sony SrS- Ns7 both these devices receive sound specifically from spdif sources. The Arctis gives you a DTS X which is unbeatable and the Srs-Ns7 provided Atmos through their XR tvs as well as phone app. Anyway, since the PS5 does not support Spdif I thought I would try to find a way to use my most favourite headsets in some way on our PS5 and this little thing was a winner. You should know though, the PS5 only supports stereo when using USB headsets and this adapter helps with that. One good thing though is that the adapter also makes sure you can use 3D Audio (Tempest decoding) which if games support it, they can sound amazing, especially when using a stereo headset, it's definitely the poor man's version (excuse the term) of DTS X or Atmos for headphones. Normally I use the Arctis Pro via the HDMI and get all surround from the spdif out from the tv so that wasn't the problem, still it works if you want 3D audio on an Arctis but when using the Sony srs-Ns7 things really started to sound fantastic with this adapter. It's like a portable surround speaker. Very surprising and mind blowing that it actually works. So all in all this product is a must have for any one that wants to use a Game DAC or other proffesional portable soundcard that uses Spdif on PS5 or PS4 pro for that matter. Was just about to buy the Steelseries Nova Pro wireless then this little adapter saved me 400$ and it just works and sounds great, no hassle. Just a gods sent! Merry Christmas!