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Headphone device for old tv?
I have an older tv. It only has one speaker. There is a headphone port. When I plug my headphones into the port, I only get sound from one side. I expected this because it only has one speaker. However, my mother makes me keep my tv and video games in the living room where the guy that owns the apartment we live in watches tv. (we live with him) Of course I dont like fighting him over tv volumes so i have tried to use my headphones. but because i only get audio on one side i can hear his tv pretty clearly from the side that has no audio.
Is there a device that allows me to get audio from both sides of the headphones. Right now I have a Y-adapter in the white hole of the A/V socket (it lacks red) and then I have the red and white plugs in the two holes provided by the Y-adapter. This allows me to hear the audio channel provided by the red connecter from the one speaker.
3 Answers
- kg7orLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The problem may be that the headphone jack in that set is a 2-wire single-channel jack, rather than the 3-wire stereo jack found on modern sets. Your headphone plug is a 3-wire device, as you can see from the 3 separate elements on the plug (tip, ring, and sleeve).
The solution would be an adapter with a 2-wire plug, with the center conductor wired to both the tip and ring connections on a 3-wire stereo jack.
This is easy to rig by someone with a little skill with electronic parts. Or, much easier, take this information to a local electronics store and ask for an appropriate adapter. The example below shows an adapter that will solve your problem if you have 1/4 inch jacks and plugs. Other sizes should also be available.
- classicsatLv 71 decade ago
You can get a mono to stereo headphone adapter. That lets you plug the stereo headphones into a mono device.
- ?Lv 44 years ago
sure mine does even with the incontrovertible fact that this is way on the returned of the television so this is quite impossible to be triumphant in and that i might choose a minimum of two ft of twine connecting to my headphones with the intention to sit down down conveniently and not inches removed from the television
