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Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I'm confused. Most TVs have an "audio out" plug-in on the back of the TV, where you can plug in the hearing aids. The audio out can be either an optical connection or a 3.5 mm stereo connection or both. You can go to the TV settings options and select "external speakers" from the audio menu. This will send the sound to the hearing aids, but not to the TV speakers. I think this is pretty typical for most TVs.

Note that, if the hearing aids are bluetooth compatible, you can buy a bluetooth transmitter from Amazon for about $20 that will allow the audio out connection to serve as a bluetooth transmitter.

I believe this is the problem the OP currently has, he can send audio to the bluetooth OR he can send it to the speakers but not both. He wants both.


This bluetooth transmitter (or one like it) might do the job.

On my current TV and the last few I have owned, there is a digital audio out that is active at the same time the speakers are active. If I use the digital output to my stereo I need to turn the speaker volume down so that I don't hear both the TV speakers and the stereo speakers. If the device above was connected to the digital audio out then it looks like it would send a bluetooth signal at the same time the TV speakers were playing. I think this is what the OP is looking for.

EDIT: The Resound Streamer from post #12 appears to be the same type of device.