I also have a senior citizen that is both blind and hard of hearing. Go into setting, under audio, select expert setting and make sure you're outputting PCM instead of bitstream or Dolby Digital. If you're using a RS165 or above with optical input, your problem is that the TV is probably outputting Dolby Digital 5.1 thru the optical port and the optical in on the Sennheiser cannot handle it. Which Sennheiser are you using? If you're using a RS120, where are you getting your analog signal for the 3.5mm jack? My father is hard of hearing so he use a BT headset while the rest of us use TV speaker or optical to receiver then home theater speakers on our KS9500. You can have BT, TV speaker and Optical out working independently on all 2016 Samsung TV. Https /You'll see other Digital to Analog converter at a cheaper price but you need one that supports Dolby Digital 5.1 input If you can't change it to PCM but your BT transmitter can accept a 3.5mm audio jack, you can use one of this: Check the setting and see if you can change it to PCM (what your hearing aid's BT transmitter is looking for). I want to split the optical out signal so I can have one leg going to my external speakers and the other leg to the transmitter for my wireless Resound hearing aids (the transmitter uses an digital optical in for the sound source).Ī lot of newer TV output optical in Dolby Digital 5.1 by default. What I can do is use Bluetooth headphone, and concurrently power my external speakers via the optical out cable. The splitter output lights are illuminated.

When I put the splitter in the optical out i don't get any sound from either of the two outputs. A splitter for the optical out does not work.

Headphones speakers same time