TV Connector for Hearing Aids

[Z3Dreamer]

Anybody have one? Want to tell me about it?

Got my first set of hearing aids (Phonak brand) a few months ago. I can buy a TV Connector from Phonak for a few hundred dollars, new or Ebay for about a third. It appears that 3rd party/generic TV Connector's don't connect real well. That's OK.

One of the technical issues is that you can connect them with either the optical/Toslink or 3.5 MM headphone jack. I already have my TV Toslink connected to my receiver. And if I use the 3.5 MM headphone jack, it turns off the sound to others in the room. Maybe I could mess with some setting to possibility mitigate this headphone issue.

So, anyone have any experience, guidance, etc?

For those who have not studied this, TV's will not bluetooth connect to hearing aids. I tried. I talked to LG. No! Period. The end.

 

[mn54]

instead of using hearing aids to connect to your tv have you tried using earbuds to connect to the tv with bluetooth? that's what I do and it works great. we also have a sound bar connected to the tv so that DW can also listen.

 

[Z3Dreamer]

instead of using hearing aids to connect to your tv have you tried using earbuds to connect to the tv with bluetooth? that's what I do and it works great. we also have a sound bar connected to the tv so that DW can also listen.

I have not. I don't have any bluetooth earbuds. I do have some bluetooth headphones. Will try that. Thanks.

Have you adjusted your earbuds to help with hearing loss or do you just turn up the volume?

 

[Z3Dreamer]

MN54 - Thanks for the suggestion. I can connect my bluetooth headphones to my TV, but my TV will only allow internal speakers in addition to the bluetooth headphones. We have external speakers since we connect our TV audio to a stereo. The Onkyo receiver is from 2018. Ones made after 2021 have a bluetooth headphone connection. Not ours!

 

[Jerry1]

instead of using hearing aids to connect to your tv have you tried using earbuds to connect to the tv with bluetooth? that's what I do and it works great. we also have a sound bar connected to the tv so that DW can also listen.

I’d like to understand this better. DW has hearing loss and though I am capable of connecting ear buds to the tv, I can’t figure out how to have a speaker on at the same time. I’d like to find a way for DW to have an assist while I listed on a lower volume through the soundbar.

 

[mn54]

I’d like to understand this better. DW has hearing loss and though I am capable of connecting ear buds to the tv, I can’t figure out how to have a speaker on at the same time. I’d like to find a way for DW to have an assist while I listed on a lower volume through the soundbar.

my soundbar is connected to the tv thru an audio out terminal. this is seperate from the speakers/bluetooth. this way you can have the audio from both the sound bar and the speakers/bluetooth if you so choose. the volume level on the earbuds is at a normal listening level. does not have to be abnormally high. it just helps to cut out any external noise and makes the dialogue clearer and easier to understand.

 

[ransil]

I have a samsung TV 2024 model and when connecting to hearing aids it cuts the sound to the sound bar, have not figured out how to fix that yet.

 

[Plantman]

I also have new phonak hearing aids since September. I got two of the TV connectors. One for the bedroom and one for the TV room. They work great. I set the volume on the TV for my wife's comfort level and adjust the volume on my hearing aids for my comfort level. The only thing I don't care for is sometimes when I'm browsing, using my cell phone, I lose the signal and I have to go back to the phonak app to reestablish it.

 

[Idnar7]

My wife had previously had her hearing aids connected to the tv and it worked great. We got a new larger tv with a sound bar and it wouldn't work with that. And the sound bar caused distortion for her. She uses the old connection with the older tv and if watching the new one, used subtitles.