Add audio out to the TV

Samsung model Un32j400daf

Ed Pawlowski:

Look at most TV mfgs. current lineups(2018-present), and you'll see fewer and fewer sets with analog(RCA or even mini TRS jacks) audio outs. Nowadays it's HDMI out, though some mfgs do supply or make available a HDMI to RCA dongle for such purpose.

That may be true, but most sound bars have optical or HDMI input.

Most flat screen TVs has small crappy speakers so a sound bar can make a big difference. On my living room set I have a bar with sub woofer and two satellite speakers too. I Chromecast music to the TV so I want decent sound to go with it.

Get an SPDIF to RCA audio converter and be done with it. You WILL need to use the volume control on the sound bar. Many multi-device remotes will handle the sound bar.

And on the target device with the downfacing "woofer" the sound you would get by just adding a jack to the L + R speakers would not be very acceptable - they are basically "tweeters" to give sepration - the majorityof the bass and mid-range, being more non-firectional, comes from the center channel

That is a good point but if this guy is just an over the air person, the sound they send you sucks. I put the OTA broadcast of the Grammys in the spectrum analyser of my sound program and it looks like something you would expect from POTS phone. I ended up downloading the songs my wife wanted because the ones OTA sounded so bad on a decent system.

That is because OTA broadcast TV sound is subject to the same heavy processing as radio is - to be as loud and conpressed as possible, despite the improved dynamic range and sig/noise ratio of digital broadcasting compared to analog.

You have to admit though the sound on Digital TV and Digital FM radio is WAY better than from the old analog OTA TV!!!

Once they went to the "stereo" broadcasts they were not horrible. It was at least as good as FM radio but that probably translates to a 256 bit MP3.

___________ Nope. It's the same compressed loud noise it was on analog TV, or on analog FM. Just no background static.

The format itself does nothing to the sound of the program material - humans, and their racks of processors - do.

__________ I have 256kb MP3 files that could kick FM radio's butt(and OTA Digital TV's, for that matter) sound-quality wise. The dynamic compression applied to the latter two is far more obvious and noticeable than the effects of data-reduction in the former.

The s***ty speakers most TVs come with are much more of a problem than the quality of the signal.