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How can I avoid having to switch wireless headphone cable?

by docdrew May 31, 2009 4:38AM PDT

I have a set of Sennheiser RS140 wireless headphones that I use with my home theatre system for watching TV after the kids go to bed. The base unit connects with a standard audio cable. I recently upgraded my receiver to a Yamaha RX-V565 in order to have HDMI switching capability. I thought that I could plug in the headphones to the audio out jacks on the receiver to listen to whatever source I choose but discovered that the audio out jacks do not carry audio info from the HDMI inputs! What this means is that when I am using my Blu-ray player I have to plug the headphone cable into the back of the Blu-ray player and when I watch content from my cable box DVR I have to plug them into the back of the DVR. This creates a situation where I have to keep switching the headphone cable back and forth which gets old real fast. Is there any way I can change this situation (some kind of splitter perhaps?) so that I don't have to keep switching the headphone cable? Thank you.

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Audio out or the earphone jack?
by ahtoi Jun 1, 2009 3:00AM PDT

Does your tv have an optical or coaxial audio output connection/s? You might try to hook that up to the Yamaha.

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I plug my SR130s into my Denon with HDMI switching
by johnpy2 Jun 5, 2009 12:52PM PDT

via the front headphone jack on the receiver. It has output from any input that the receiver gets, so no switching, I just use a small adapter that takes the two RCA males and converts to a single 1/4 inch headphone plug. It has the added bonus of muting all of the speakers at the same time.

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Thanks, but...
by docdrew Jun 5, 2009 1:03PM PDT

all of my components are stacked in a niche behind a glass door so my 3 year old can't get to them. Plugging the cable into the front of the receiver means having the door open and a dangling cable. I solved the problem by using several plugs and splitters.

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