[paradisiac]

ok, not sure if anyone will be able to help, but i had a polaroid 32" LCD tv with external speakers connected to the audio out as the speakers were not great on the tv. the thing is, when i adjusted the volume with the tv remote it also made the external speakers go up and down, today i bought a bush LT42M1CFA LCD tv, set it up the same with the external speakers, but the volume of the speakers do not adjust with the tvs volume, which is really annoying, is there any wy of sorting this or is it tv thing?

thanks in advance

[David (2)]

there may be a different volume control for the in built speakers and external speakers. For example, the ext sound level maybe hidden away on a menu.

[chrisjr]

And it is equally likely there is NO volume adjustment available on the LINE OUT of the TV.

Some makes like my LG and your original TV have line outs that are affected by the volume control setting. Some do not.

Are you connecting using the pair of phono sockets on the back of the TV? If so then have a look to see if there is a headphone jack somewhere. That should follow the volume control. You may need an adapter top convert two phonos to a stereo jack but you can get these easily enough, try your local Maplin store for instance.

[paradisiac]

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Originally Posted by chrisjr

And it is equally likely there is NO volume adjustment available on the LINE OUT of the TV.

Some makes like my LG and your original TV have line outs that are affected by the volume control setting. Some do not.

Are you connecting using the pair of phono sockets on the back of the TV? If so then have a look to see if there is a headphone jack somewhere. That should follow the volume control. You may need an adapter top convert two phonos to a stereo jack but you can get these easily enough, try your local Maplin store for instance.

yeh it is connected by phono leads and there is a headphone socket on the back too, just would of been nice to have both the tv speakers and the external ones working, will going through a headphone jack reduce the sound quality?

[chrisjr]

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Originally Posted by paradisiac

yeh it is connected by phono leads and there is a headphone socket on the back too, just would of been nice to have both the tv speakers and the external ones working, will going through a headphone jack reduce the sound quality?

Having both sets of speakers on is not that good an idea really. 999 times out of a 1000 you only end up making it sound worse Can be a real pain matching the sound from two different speakers so they compliment rather than fight each other.

The headphone jack should be OK. Obviously it is designed to drive the fairly low impedance loads presented by headphones. But a high impedance load like your speaker amp won't cause it any real problems. There may be a slight difference in sound because of the different impedance but if the headphone driver is competently designed it should be very slight. Assuming they haven't done anything "clever" with the frequency response to try and make it sound "good" into cheap and cheerfull headphones!

[paradisiac]

ok thanks, thing thats most annoying is it wont even mute with the tv. will have a play with it later and see how it sounds through the headphone sockets