Brilliant minds…my son is suggesting the same (or very similar) Onkyo as the way to go.
FWIW, I came out of my local Costco today with a set of KS 5.0s and the store demo Resound Streamer 2 as a loaner. As expected, the Streamer did not work off the family room (w/ AVR theater system) TV’s Optical Out. It did work off the old Onkyo AVR’s headphone jack. (It did work just fine from the bedroom TV’s Optical Out.)
The bad part about the Streamer is it sure does not have a movie type sound - at all. The good part is I can understand speech with the streamer (even if I walk into another room or upstairs). Not so much so with just the HAs. (My hearing damage is severe to profound per the fitter, witch is what I anticipated.)
And I don’t need the Phone Clip+ for Streaming (or cell phone use), which for some reason I thought I would.
My son is suggesting I try a bluetooth headphone setup with the new AVR, so we will go that route before deciding on buying a Streamer.