sound streamer / receiver

@mahler123   - thank you for your reply - great question.

I have active speakers (space constrained in a room) and would like to have the visual signal separated from sound from the signal source (vs having to send it out via the TV)

Are you using other sources besides the TV?  And do your speakers accept HDMI inputs?

the speakers only accept some complex protocol of ethernet signals (meridian audio DPS 5200 Special Edition :) ) . It has a streamer which can accept optical in. I've tried other Multimedia processors of meridian with it - never really worked.

The only input I am trying to use is hdmi for this. Regular audio input from a turn table works fine where there's no video.

According to online manual, the speakers have coax, not optical, both in and out.  And there is no mention of a streamer contained within the speakers

The Trinnov Altitude 16 with the latest HDMI 2.1 board will accept 8K and can output digital over optical or coaxial for some of the channels.

Otherwise I think Meridian is expecting you to use their controller with Trinnov, Datasat, or Storm Audio. Is that the Meridian processor configuration you weren't able to get working?