Monoprice Component & S/PDIF Digital Coax/Optical Toslink Audio to HDMI Converter does what it says. While it isn't without its quirks, it does work. Mostly. Monoprice has a singular reputation in the ...

But don't throw it out just yet ...

Obviously, the caveat with that switch is that it will not support encoding formats that Optical Toslink doesn't support, like TrueHD. If you have your HDMI audio output encoded in TrueHD, your ...

I've got the A20 model, and I run optical and HDMI for the same time, just like you describe. I would think that the A2 should be able to as well.