So I'm getti.........................GOTTEN pretty deaf. And my cheap Samsung TV doesnt help. The speakers are little, and they point down. Most the time the volume is 70% or more
So I experimented. THE ONLY audio output the TV has is "digital optical" So I bought an adapter on egag, and you have to screw with the digital audio delay in the menu, otherwise the "lips don't sync". It also had one other annoy problem---see later-- And so that went away, and I forgot about it
Finally, after the warrantee was up, I dug into the TV and "hacked" external audio output off the speakers, feeding isolation transformers with big caps in series..............because there are problems with DC feedback which we won't get into
I used these to drive a small stereo amp, with extermal speakers, which I used part of the time. This did not work all that badly, except the audio did not seem to be "linear". In other words sometimes when a loud commercial came on the level difference was VERY noticeable. But it worked OK
SO THE OTHER DAY I found this Vizeo sound bar set up, with a woofer and surround sound speakers in the local humane society thrift shop for 50 bucks. And dragged it all home
The inputs it has are RCA jack analog, 1/8 phone jack analog, "digital" (single RCA jack) and "digital optical"
SO I HOOKED THE DIGITAL OPTICAL CABLE RIGHT UP TO THE TV!!!
And then I was forced to remember..............not only do ya have to screw with audio delay, BUT THE OPTICAL OUTPUT IS NOT CONTROLLED BY THE TV REMOTE!!!!! IT IS A FIXED LEVEL!!!!
WTF????!!!!! NOW I remember!!! That is part of the reason I ditched that thing!!!!
SO I regressed and hooked my home-made output jacks on the TV to the analog input of the sound bar BUT!!! You must leave the TV speakers turned on as they are in parallel
AND HERE IS THE NOW PROBLEM!!!
With the (other) analog stereo amp/ external speakers, "there was" no problem other than quality. Now, the sound bar has "enough" digital crap inside it's guts, that EVEN THOUGH I'm using the "analog" inputs, THE SOUND BAR CIRCUITRY introduces JUST ENOUGH delay that there is a noticeable echo between the (now low level) TV speakers and the louder soundbar speakers
For now, LOLOL, I "fixed" it by turning the soundbar output up quite a ways, and so now the TV speakers are low enough that you simply can't hear them or the echo
I tell ya guys and girls. This is TWENTY TWENTY TWO. It is not 1948, nor 58, nor 78. It is not even 98. Yet the industry STILL can not seem to come up with VERSATILE equipment that can be made compatible
So I experimented. THE ONLY audio output the TV has is "digital optical" So I bought an adapter on egag, and you have to screw with the digital audio delay in the menu, otherwise the "lips don't sync". It also had one other annoy problem---see later-- And so that went away, and I forgot about it
Finally, after the warrantee was up, I dug into the TV and "hacked" external audio output off the speakers, feeding isolation transformers with big caps in series..............because there are problems with DC feedback which we won't get into
I used these to drive a small stereo amp, with extermal speakers, which I used part of the time. This did not work all that badly, except the audio did not seem to be "linear". In other words sometimes when a loud commercial came on the level difference was VERY noticeable. But it worked OK
SO THE OTHER DAY I found this Vizeo sound bar set up, with a woofer and surround sound speakers in the local humane society thrift shop for 50 bucks. And dragged it all home
The inputs it has are RCA jack analog, 1/8 phone jack analog, "digital" (single RCA jack) and "digital optical"
SO I HOOKED THE DIGITAL OPTICAL CABLE RIGHT UP TO THE TV!!!
And then I was forced to remember..............not only do ya have to screw with audio delay, BUT THE OPTICAL OUTPUT IS NOT CONTROLLED BY THE TV REMOTE!!!!! IT IS A FIXED LEVEL!!!!
WTF????!!!!! NOW I remember!!! That is part of the reason I ditched that thing!!!!
SO I regressed and hooked my home-made output jacks on the TV to the analog input of the sound bar BUT!!! You must leave the TV speakers turned on as they are in parallel
AND HERE IS THE NOW PROBLEM!!!
With the (other) analog stereo amp/ external speakers, "there was" no problem other than quality. Now, the sound bar has "enough" digital crap inside it's guts, that EVEN THOUGH I'm using the "analog" inputs, THE SOUND BAR CIRCUITRY introduces JUST ENOUGH delay that there is a noticeable echo between the (now low level) TV speakers and the louder soundbar speakers
For now, LOLOL, I "fixed" it by turning the soundbar output up quite a ways, and so now the TV speakers are low enough that you simply can't hear them or the echo
I tell ya guys and girls. This is TWENTY TWENTY TWO. It is not 1948, nor 58, nor 78. It is not even 98. Yet the industry STILL can not seem to come up with VERSATILE equipment that can be made compatible
