Deaf hubby means loud tv.

[Belledog]

Hi all
im needing a solution. My hubby is deaf, we have a new avtex tv that he has playing way too loud late at night. It doesn’t seem to have Bluetooth. I was wanting to connect a Bluetooth speaker to the tv with the speaker near him. Is this even possible. Can anyone suggest something. He doesn’t get on with his hearing aid.
desperate
Karen.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Hi all
im needing a solution. My hubby is deaf, we have a new avtex tv that he has playing way too loud late at night. It doesn’t seem to have Bluetooth. I was wanting to connect a Bluetooth speaker to the tv with the speaker near him. Is this even possible. Can anyone suggest something. He doesn’t get on with his hearing aid.
desperate
Karen.

I made an extension speaker that plugs into the headphone socket. It's simply a little oval speaker, no box. Sits on or even under the pillow

 

[intokenny]

My hearing is not great, so i use subtitles. Trouble is now i cant watch anything without subtitles!!!

 

[autorouter]

If no Bluetooth, is there a headphone socket that cuts off the TV sound when you plug it in? You could plug in a wire that goes to a speaker near him. If it works you could find a way to route the wire so it's not too obtrusive.

 

[MattR]

Hi all
im needing a solution. My hubby is deaf, we have a new avtex tv that he has playing way too loud late at night. It doesn’t seem to have Bluetooth. I was wanting to connect a Bluetooth speaker to the tv with the speaker near him. Is this even possible. Can anyone suggest something. He doesn’t get on with his hearing aid.
desperate
Karen.

He could use headphones or put a Bluetooth sender into the TV and use Bluetooth speakers / headphones.

Something like this could work if there is a headphone socket / aux out socket: Amazon product ASIN B00Q2EGQQU

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[Vipar]

I plug in headphones they cut the speaker off.

 

[BobtheBass]

We have a twin Bluetooth transmitter (a tiny black box you buy on eBay) that plugs into the headphone socket. We each have a Bluetooth headphone set with our own volume control, again very cheap and bliss! Peace and quiet in the van with no neighbours banging on the wall as has happened a few times in the past 'cos I am self inflicted nearly deaf!

You could easily replicate this as a wired system with two ordinary headphones and a splitter plug allowing both to work from one signal, but don't forget to get headphones with volume controls.

 

[Larrynwin]

My wife is post as a deaf So bought her one of these, rechargeable wireless, I can listen to tv normally and Win wears these , does the trick

 

[old-mo]

My wife is post as a deaf So bought her one of these, rechargeable wireless, I can listen to tv normally and Win wears these , does the trick

Judy bought me some similar to those, Bruv....

But now we have got all new TV`s.... none of the new ones have the provision or place to plug the base unit in..

Twas brilliant... She could have the tv on soft that she could hear and I could have the earphones turned up that I could hear...

 

[sonny]

A small sheet of aluminium behind your head or cupped hands behind ears helps

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[Larrynwin]

Judy bought me some similar to those, Bruv....

But now we have got all new TV`s.... none of the new ones have the provision or place to plug the base unit in..

Twas brilliant... She could have the tv on soft that she could hear and I could have the earphones turned up that I could hear...

Mo we have a new smart tv which uses an optical sound outlet which these headphones also use, I also bought a digital audio splitter and a digital to analogue audio converter which gives the choice of output in analogue or digital to the headphone unit depending on what you have , a tenner each on Amazon.

 

[Belledog]

He could use headphones or put a Bluetooth sender into the TV and use Bluetooth speakers / headphones.

Something like this could work if there is a headphone socket / aux out socket: Amazon product ASIN B00Q2EGQQU

Yes
he has Sony bluetooth headphones. I will try this.thank you

 

[Larrynwin]

The problem when connecting sound out from the outputs of a tv is that the tv speaker disconnects so a splitter is useful to overcome this, available are analogue splitters so two separate devices can be connected , headphones and remote speaker.
All cheap enough on Amazon or e bay.

 

[Mel]

I have 94% hearing loss
My left ear has an hearing aid (Phonak Marval M90 R)
My right ear has a Cochlear BAHA 5 super power
Both connect via bluetooth to the TV
Not a cheap hearing aid
I think about €2000 per side + €250 for TV streamer

 

[Nigel Crompton]

We're both 'hard of hearing' rather than deaf. We have a BT sender plugged into TV's headphone socket, but the sender we use supports 2 devices so we each use BT 'phones and can set volume level individually.

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[makems]

 

[Rosemary1]

My hearing is not great, so i use subtitles. Trouble is now i cant watch anything without subtitles!!!

Same here - really helps

 

[Rosemary1]

I have 94% hearing loss
My left ear has an hearing aid (Phonak Marval M90 R)
My right ear has a Cochlear BAHA 5 super power
Both connect via bluetooth to the TV
Not a cheap hearing aid
I think about €2000 per side + €250 for TV streamer

Was it worth the money? I’m not 94% yet but every year my hearing gets worse after each Menieres attack.

 

[Lenny HB]

I find a lot of films & drams I struggle with the sound clarity, I tried a Bluetooth transmitter as I have Bluetooth headphones. Fine if I were on my own but when my other half is there the Bluetooth has a slight sound delay and as the sound bar is on for the boss you get a terrible echo and it's unlistenable, sent it back waste of time for us.

 

[F.M.C.Fourier]

My hearing is not great, so i use subtitles. Trouble is now i cant watch anything without subtitles!!!

Same here; my hearing loss is quite minor but I now use subtitles as a crutch. I have got to the stage where I have become unaware that they are on even though I am automatically reading them. Essential for a lot of dramas and films I find, but less so for news.

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[Larrynwin]

I find a lot of films & drams I struggle with the sound clarity, I tried a Bluetooth transmitter as I have Bluetooth headphones. Fine if I were on my own but when my other half is there the Bluetooth has a slight sound delay and as the sound bar is on for the boss you get a terrible echo and it's unlistenable, sent it back waste of time for us.

I feed my sound bar and the wife’s headphones from the optical digital splitter so the sound is synchronized.

 

[Lenny HB]

I feed my sound bar and the wife’s headphones from the optical digital splitter so the sound is synchronized.

I used an optical splitter, but was getting a sound lag on the Bluetooth transmitter, even though the one I bought claimed to have the latest chip with negliable delay.

 

[PaulyP]

YOU WILL ALL HAVE TO SPEAK UP, I CAN’T HEAR ANYTHING

 

[pappajohn]

Everyone is going about this the wrong way......... Sell the TV. Sorted.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Tell him to stick his hearing aids in his ears and forget about them! At least that's what I'm told every day by the missus but not quite politely!!

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[AndyPK]

I have 94% hearing loss
My left ear has an hearing aid (Phonak Marval M90 R)
My right ear has a Cochlear BAHA 5 super power
Both connect via bluetooth to the TV
Not a cheap hearing aid
I think about €2000 per side + €250 for TV streamer

Yes......I had something similar until we moved to Ciren and I had to get different hearing aids (thanks, NHS!!), but I always wondered why, if the aids had Bluetooth built-in, was a streamer necessary to connect to the tv which also has Bluetooth.....?
My new aids do not have Bluetooth, so I just use a pair of compatible headphones to listen as I find speech very difficult to hear direct from the tv.

 

[Larrynwin]

YOU WILL ALL HAVE TO SPEAK UP, I CAN’T HEAR ANYTHING

PARDON ?

 

[Larrynwin]

I used an optical splitter, but was getting a sound lag on the Bluetooth transmitter, even though the one I bought claimed to have the latest chip with negliable delay.

Im not using a Bluetooth tx , I feed optical to the sound bar and the wireless headphone set as in post #8 and neither have a sound delay .

 

[Lenny HB]

I've just had an idea, what I should have done with the Bluetooth transmitter is run the soundbar from that as well as the headphones then the delay would have been the same.

 

[AndyPK]

Can you not adjust the delay time........?

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