Apple TV plays some sounds through computer speakers

Hi all,
Very strange...when I am in Apple TV, connected to the TV through HDMI, if I am in YouTube, for example, and I am doing a search and clicking around the alphabet to enter a search word, some sounds come from the mac speakers (which are right beside the TV) and some come from the TV. It like if I arrow right, it comes from the computer and if I arrow left, it comes from the TV speakers. Very odd.
ANy ideas?

Has anyone figured this out? I bought this digital-to-audio (DAC) at Amazon: http://amzn.to/T8dmtR - the most expensive/best review one given that I didn't want to deal with the headaches the cheaper ones had. Here's what it can and can't do:
I can use it to play music through my Apple TV (3rd gen) just fine when using Airplay, HOWEVER the first ten seconds are an incredibly horrifying output of high-decible static. The way around this is to disconnect the cables when first playing music, wait ten seconds, then connect. I can control the volume through the Mac/iOS device, but everything is at bottom one-fourth of the volume setting, without much control. It works fine enough.
As for using Apple TV to watch movies, forget it. There's no way to control volume, and the minimum volume is way too loud. It seems a receiver is required, as people with home stereo systems have no problem at all.
A guy in this blogged used another DAC model, but not sure if he's the only one that got it to work: http://blog.jcarter.ca/?p=754
Anyone successfully connect Apple TV to computer speakers yet? It'd be ideal if the same solution applied to a TV with optical output.

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