Speakers for hard of hearing?

[Ryan]

Friend is looking for a satellite speaker that her father can turn up to listen to the tv with out annoying the rest of the family. Can always plug in a speaker but the sound will cut off when plugged in. Need to be able to turn up the volume on the satellite speaker and have regular volume on the main tv. I have seen a product that you can put in your ears but dont think he will like the headset idea.

 

[John Larkin]

I found this online but have never seen it used. http://www.assistech.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=TVEARSDSPKR Not cheap - $200.00 You can add earbuds or even plug your ipod into it as well. The more I look at it, the more I think I should get one for stepdad.

 

[scot w.]

This is weird! My wife and I are looking for the same thing for her father who is 87 and lives in apartments...

He already has wireless headphones and wants a new pair.... The catch is he only likes the old school mickey mouse ear headphones and not these little skinny ones made today..... Ugggggh.

 

[Bruce Urie]

I'm back! And this is right up my alley. Let me try to help you here.

Check the back of your TV. If it's new, or pretty new, you should have 3 output jacks in these colors: Yellow, red, white. It should say output, or out over the three. You may have more, but find three that says out.

Yellow is VIDEO
Red is left channel sound
White is right channel sound.

You must have a stereo amplifier with different inputs on it, i.e. Phono, TV, DVD, Tape, etc. You must have a Headphone jack on the front of the amp...says "Headphones"

On the back of the amplifier, pick one of the channels, TV, DVD, any one of them.....right at that location you pick, you'll have a yellow, red, and white input jack (these are called RCA input jacks)

Now, get a set of wires that have a yellow, red, and white male RCA jacks on BOTH ends of the wires. (and long enough to run from your TV to the stereo amp. 6 feet usually works)

Plug the RED RCA jack into the BACK of your TV that has the RED output female jack on it....run the other end of it to your amp back to the RED input RCA jack. Do the same for the white male jack, plug the white end into the back of your TV right next to the RED output and run that to the back of your amp to the white INPUT next to the RED you just plugged in. That's it.

THEN, plug in a stereo headphone set into the jack in the front of your amplifier........you can now listen to the TV while turning the sound off or down on the TV........the TV volume is separate from your headphone volume, which is controlled by the amplifier volume control on the channel you chose that you plugged the wires into at the back of your amp......volume is either by remote control that comes with amps or by doing it manually.

The TV volume is controlled by the TV volume......it can be as loud of soft as anyone wants it in the room.....thus, people with good hearing can listen to the TV at the volume that's comfortable for them, and you can listen through headphones the TV sound through the amplifier. You'll have two separate sound controls now. One for the people in the room, and one for you....neither one will conflict with each other. You can listen to your headphones as loud as you want, it will not affect the TV volume at all. Got it? That's how I've been doing it for years.....so if I watch a program late at night, I use headphones, and the TV sound is off. Won't disturb anyone.

Of course, using closed captioned with this method helps even more.

If you need any more help here, let me know. I just hope I've been some help for you.

Bruce '87 Grand National

 

[Ryan]

Thanks for the great info guys. The tv ears look like what I need but very expensive. Bruce great write up. Appreciate all work you put in to explaining. Would like to have an external speaker rather than head sets. Headsets are a good idea but dont think he would use it.

 

[Phoneguy]

I have been using the Sennheiser RS 170 wireless headphones for a few years now...they are perfect. I am very happy with them....

Bryan

 

[Bruce Urie]

Ryan, you're welcome.You can use external speakers.....just hook them up to the amplifier back to speaker outputs.....then use the channel you have chosen on your amp that you ran the wires from the TV output......a selector knob on the is used for this.......then you can use the TV sound through this channel through the speakers. These amps usually have a speaker a, b, and c selector switch.....each one using a pair of speakers......using a uses a pair, using b uses a pair and so forth.....for now just install a left and right speaker to the amplifier sound OUTPUT on your amp. Hope this helps you.

Not use a headphone? Damn, doesn't know what he's missing! You get complete super sound this way....you can hear ever nuance of every note of music or a perfect definition of speech......I, myself, LIVE for the headhpones as I love it loud!

Bryan, I'll have to check out one of those Sennheisers......if they have 40mm 50mm drivers in the ear pieces, plus very low frequency....I know they are great headphones, though. .I've been using the Sony MDR 7506 Studio Monitor Professional....40mm drivers, but, man, really, really great sounding.....great for my guitar playing when I get an itch to play Led Zepplin's "Good Times, Bad Times" in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.....that's why I'm still happily married. But I have about 8 feet of cord running to the amp for TV....sometimes my cat gets tangled up in it, or my wife trips over it.....(sigh)

By the way, Bryan, what powers your wireless phone base? Batteries, or AC?


Of course, let us know how it comes out.....if you need any more help, let me know here, I'll try my best to help you.

Bruce '87 Grand National

 

[Phoneguy]

Ryan, you're welcome.You can use external speakers.....just hook them up to the amplifier back to speaker outputs.....then use the channel you have chosen on your amp that you ran the wires from the TV output......a selector knob on the is used for this.......then you can use the TV sound through this channel through the speakers. These amps usually have a speaker a, b, and c selector switch.....each one using a pair of speakers......using a uses a pair, using b uses a pair and so forth.....for now just install a left and right speaker to the amplifier sound OUTPUT on your amp. Hope this helps you.

Not use a headphone? Damn, doesn't know what he's missing! You get complete super sound this way....you can hear ever nuance of every note of music or a perfect definition of speech......I, myself, LIVE for the headhpones as I love it loud!

Bryan, I'll have to check out one of those Sennheisers......if they have 40mm 50mm drivers in the ear pieces, plus very low frequency....I know they are great headphones, though. .I've been using the Sony MDR 7506 Studio Monitor Professional....40mm drivers, but, man, really, really great sounding.....great for my guitar playing when I get an itch to play Led Zepplin's "Good Times, Bad Times" in the middle of the night when I can't sleep.....that's why I'm still happily married. But I have about 8 feet of cord running to the amp for TV....sometimes my cat gets tangled up in it, or my wife trips over it.....(sigh)

By the way, Bryan, what powers your wireless phone base? Batteries, or AC?


Of course, let us know how it comes out.....if you need any more help, let me know here, I'll try my best to help you.

Bruce '87 Grand National

Bruce , the drivers are 40 mm. The base runs off of AC power. They will run over 24 hours on a charge, I leave them on periodically to let them fully discharge and am amazed that they are still going 26 to 28 hours later with 3 year old original batteries. Very comfortable to wear and the sound quality is awesome, not perfect but with an analog input it is outstanding.

Bryan

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[Jay J]

Picked up a set of TV ears for the old man--He didn't care for them at first, but when it came down to hearing the program, or not hearing it, he adapted... 100 bucks at Costco... Now if I can just get him to put them on the charger when he's not using them...

 

[Bescurred]

This is weird! My wife and I are looking for the same thing for her father who is 87 and lives in apartments...

He already has wireless headphones and wants a new pair.... The catch is he only likes the old school mickey mouse ear headphones and not these little skinny ones made today..... Ugggggh.

For us gamers there is a company called turtle beach...they make a few wireless headphones that I think would work for what you're looking for...I've had a few sets mostly to keep the family from hearing the game late at night lol...