I've never been particularly happpy with the sound from my TV so routed the sound via my Hi-Fi speakers by plugging in phono leads from the back of the TV to the amp aux connection and turning down the sound on the TV remote to zero . If I want to mute the sound I need to use the Hi-Fi remote . As I wanted to move the Hi-Fi elsewhere I recently tried another way by plugging in a couple of mains powered computer speakers instead but that has the disadvantage that other than switching the TV to standby or getting up and turning these speakers off I can't mute the sound .
Ideally I would want a pair of speakers that I could plug in to the TV ( similar to the computer speakers) but that could be controlled remotely ...is that possible ...you would have thought that the TV Man'frs would have designed the set so that using the TV Mute on the remote would also have muted the sound going to the additional speakers plugged in to the connections at the back .