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Question

TV audio help

Jan 18, 2015 11:54AM PST

I suffer from PTSD and traumatic brain injury and lost most of my hearing. Is there a way to have head phones turned up loud so I can listen to the tv while the rest of my family can listen to the normal sound. Close captioning is nice but you miss out on so much. Even with my hearing aides the tv has too be to loud for everyone else in order for me to slightly hear it. Thanks ahead for your input

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Re: sound
Jan 18, 2015 6:55PM PST

If this anonymous TV doesn't have this option, you have to cheat. Connect the headphone out to the aux in of an amplifier, and connect the headphone out of that amplifier to your headphone. But this only works in that half of the TV's that don't suppress their own sound when you connect a headphone. The other half of the TV's do that: no sound from the speakers when the headphone is in. Anyway, if you do it like this, it's a knock-out criterion when buying a TV.

Kees

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Sorry, I'm new at this
Jan 19, 2015 12:36AM PST

Thanks for responding. I also found out I have a hard time explaining things now too, sorry about that.
I have a LG 55" model 7900 is my main tv and have a older 46" Samsung LCD 6500 series. I did not know if the new blue tooth sounbars might have a option or not that could help with my problem or not.
Thanks

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So far no bluetooth links with TVs directly.
Jan 19, 2015 12:47AM PST

It's so rare I'd dismiss that out of hand. Kees did drop hints on how to solve it plus the need for exact model numbers. The 6500 series isn't enough of the full model as I would have to check more than one model.

I think the best thing to do is to tackle it set by set.

Then again, CNET just wrote about TUNITY. Here's a link:
http://www.cnet.com/news/tunity-streams-tv-audio-to-your-smartphone/

Bob