Nabbed one of these 55" QA55S90CAWXXY recently and awaiting delivery… seeing as it is one on OzB's favourite OLED's wondering if anyone can answer this for me…
I use a vintage Marantz amp setup with a set of 12" 3-way floorstanders which only accepts RCA inputs.
My current TV has a 3.5mm headphone jack, which works fine here.
I cant find definitive info but it seems some variants of the S90C in some markets have a functional headphone jack - does the AU variant have one (QA55S90CAWXXY), and more importantly, does it actually work (ie actually connected to internal circuitry)?
Alternatively, I believe the model has a 5V/1A USB port which should be enough to power a Digital to Analog converter (ie optical to RCA). do i want to pay a bit more for a 192KhZ or will 96kz sampling support be ok?
Cheers!
Personally, as nice as a vintage marantz amp would sound, getting a decent quality (picked up a top of the line Pioneer ATMOS amp for $300) second hand amp off gumtree/marketplace with a HDMI EARC input would solve a lot of problems with regards to minimising audio quality degradation, plus you get to control the volume with your tv :). The amp was the first thing to go when i bought my first EARC capable TV.