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To my sad surprise, there are no RCA audio output jacks on the back of this 2014-vintage television!! What's up with that, Samsung? You are not hip to hooking up old-fashioned stereo amplifiers to your modern flat-panel sets?
My new Sony stereo receiver, on the other hand, is old hat in many respects. No HDMI ports. No digital optical audio ports. Just a bunch of RCA audio in's, phono jacks and one pair of audio out's for that old-school tape-loop monitor cassette deck sort of routine.
Thankfully, my Smart TV has an AUDIO OUT jack which is basically a 3.50 mm headphone stereo jack on the rear panel. I just tested it with my corded stereo headset to verify that this jack works. You cannot adjust headphone volume with the TV set as this AUDIO OUT is line-level. There is only a moderate amount of fixed volume with the headset plugged into it. Upon trying to adjust the TV volume with the headset plugged in and the TV sound menu set to AUDIO OUT, the pop-up on the TV screen said one must adjust the volume using only the connected device, as a stereo amplifier. I cannot use the built-in TV speakers in conjunction with external audio components either.
The only RCA jacks on the back of this set are INPUTS for component/composite audio/video in case you have a VCR to hook up to the TV set. I did not know people still use VCR's. Samsung engineers must have thought about old farts who still have a collection of Falcon Crest and Simon & Simon episodes on VHS from the 1980's but forgot all about the baby-boomer rock n' rollers with all that 1970's-technology stereo gear. The traditional home stereo, after all, was the original "home theater" audio system.
Along with the new Sony stereo, I ordered a 6-foot RCA cable to hook up the TV to the tuner/amp not knowing the damned set did not even have any RCA audio outputs at that time. So now, I will have to order an adapter with 3.50 mm male plug on one end and a pair of female RCA plugs on the opposite end.
When combining old-school equipment with newer stuff, there is always some extra crap one has to buy.
My Panasonic Blu-Ray player and set-top Windows PC do in fact interconnect with the Smart TV via HDMI cables.
My new Sony stereo receiver, on the other hand, is old hat in many respects. No HDMI ports. No digital optical audio ports. Just a bunch of RCA audio in's, phono jacks and one pair of audio out's for that old-school tape-loop monitor cassette deck sort of routine.
Thankfully, my Smart TV has an AUDIO OUT jack which is basically a 3.50 mm headphone stereo jack on the rear panel. I just tested it with my corded stereo headset to verify that this jack works. You cannot adjust headphone volume with the TV set as this AUDIO OUT is line-level. There is only a moderate amount of fixed volume with the headset plugged into it. Upon trying to adjust the TV volume with the headset plugged in and the TV sound menu set to AUDIO OUT, the pop-up on the TV screen said one must adjust the volume using only the connected device, as a stereo amplifier. I cannot use the built-in TV speakers in conjunction with external audio components either.
The only RCA jacks on the back of this set are INPUTS for component/composite audio/video in case you have a VCR to hook up to the TV set. I did not know people still use VCR's. Samsung engineers must have thought about old farts who still have a collection of Falcon Crest and Simon & Simon episodes on VHS from the 1980's but forgot all about the baby-boomer rock n' rollers with all that 1970's-technology stereo gear. The traditional home stereo, after all, was the original "home theater" audio system.
Along with the new Sony stereo, I ordered a 6-foot RCA cable to hook up the TV to the tuner/amp not knowing the damned set did not even have any RCA audio outputs at that time. So now, I will have to order an adapter with 3.50 mm male plug on one end and a pair of female RCA plugs on the opposite end.
When combining old-school equipment with newer stuff, there is always some extra crap one has to buy.
My Panasonic Blu-Ray player and set-top Windows PC do in fact interconnect with the Smart TV via HDMI cables.
