Parents just bought a t.v that has no headphone jack to plug their w/l speakers in to. (They have them so they can have a speaker each closer to their chairs. Going a bit deaf bless them).

Is there another way they can connect them ?

Make and model of TV

Make and model of speakers

Vital information without which no-one can help.

After all it is impossible to suggest any alternative connection scenario if we don't know what available connections are provided on the two devices.

I'll have to find out. Thanks.

Or take the TV back and exchange it for one that *does* have a headphone socket?

Might be easier said than done these days. Lots of TVs I've looked at recently seem to only have a digital audio output. No headphone socket or analogue audio outputs. If you are lucky there may be a SCART with the output pins wired up to the tuner output.

Get a Sony one, they have a 3.5mm socket for headphones or audio out - usually configurable for muting the speakers or not, and variable or not.

I must be thick here, but if the speakers are wireless, why do you need to plug them in to anything ?

They need an audio source. They are probably like cordless headphones which have a base unit that plugs into the headphone or other audio output of whatever you want to listen to then transmits that audio to the headphones. Or in this case speakers.

In that case, maybe there are alternatives on the 'base unit' that can be explored ?

There are all sorts of alternatives but it depends what the TV provides hence the wait to see what model it is.

Not to mention, do the speakers have volume controls? That could be a factor. If they don't have volume controls then the base unit would need to be connected to a variable level output, like the headphones, otherwise there would be no control over loudness.

Which could be a problem if the TV only has fixed level outputs available.

Going to try a 3.5 stereo jack socket to RCA conns. Hopefully that will work.

Speakers do have a volume knob.

Thanks.

But what are you plugging into on the TV?

These days it is less common to see analogue audio outs on phono (RCA) sockets. So it is very possible the Audio connectors on the TV are all inputs which would be of no use to you.

That is why it helps to know what we are talking about.

Not 'less common' - it's almost totally unknown

As you keep asking, if he told us the make and model of TV we could give exact advise.

The RCA plugs to Audio out sockets.

Totally unknown to have RCA Audio outs? Last 4K tv i looked at had them. Maybe you're thinking of something else? Thanks for you help so far though

But are you certain they are outputs? As I said (and so did Nigel ) it is not that common to find analogue audio outs on phono sockets on modern TVs. Digital seems to have taken over, usually optical.

You are far more likely to find analogue audio input sockets than outputs.

As chrisjr has already said, FAR more likely to be INPUTS, phono outputs have been very rare for quite a few years now.

However, as you can't even call them the right name (RCA is the American name, not the English one), nor mention the make and model (so we can check for you), I'm very dubious about them been outputs

What TV was that?

Had a look at a few random 4k TVs and not even the 20 grand offering from Sony had any mention of analogue audio outputs on phono sockets. They had headphone outs though.

Not just that, it's also audio line out as well - menu selectable for what you want (on most Sony sets, not just 4K).