Speaker & headphone hack?

[Hominid999]

SWMBO (she who must be obeyed) likes the TV volume fairly low, but due to tinnitus and hearing loss, I prefer much louder volumes, or at least headphones.  Is there a hack I can employ to use both?  I did use an HDMI splitter before I had a smart TV to send audio to a small mixer, but there's no audio from it when put in series with the ARC cable (which goes from the TV to the receiver). There's no line-out on my TV, and headphones plugged into the TV cut out all sound - including the ARC feed.

 

Any ideas?

[TheLawyerMan]

Well, I know there are AV receivers that can accomplish this. Does your TV have ARC (Audio Return Channel)?

[TheLawyerMan]

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[Hominid999]

On 1/15/2021 at 7:55 PM, ALLSTAR1JAC2899 said:

Well, I know there are AV receivers that can accomplish this. Does your TV have ARC (Audio Return Channel)?

Yes it does - I'm using that port to send audio to my receiver for 5.1 surround.  I tried an audio extractor/splitter on it, but no audio comes out.  That same splitter used on my Bluray player works fine.

[TheLawyerMan]

On 1/17/2021 at 12:33 PM, Hominid999 said:

Yes it does - I'm using that port to send audio to my receiver for 5.1 surround.  I tried an audio extractor/splitter on it, but no audio comes out.  That same splitter used on my Bluray player works fine.

Well, you don't need to split and extract as long as you have some sort of secondary output on your receiver

[TheLawyerMan]

Just now, ALLSTAR1JAC2899 said:

Well, you don't need to split and extract as long as you have some sort of secondary output on your receiver

That being, something like a 1/4 port or a second zone that will do RCA out.