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Originally Posted by NoMo50
Not universally true, while it may be that way for your setup.
We have a Samsung TV, and I use Costco/Phonak hearing aids that use Bluetooth. I use a TV Connector box, also Bluetooth, that is connected to the TV's audio out jack via an optical (Toslink) cable. The TV Connector streams the audio directly to my hearing aids indepenent of the TV speakers. This allows me to hear the audio perfectly, while my wife can adjust the TV volume to her liking.
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But then she would be hearing the sound directly in her ears AND the sound coming from the TV speakers. The TV speaker sound would sound muted, or unintelligible, or even screechy if her hearing aids are set certain ways.
I can wear my hearing aides, hear streaming from the streaming box through my computer, while also wearing my wired stereo headset plugged in to the back of my computer. I can hear the sound coming from both devices.
I'd never want to though, it's horrible, everything echoes.
On most TVs, if your speakers come from the TV itself and are not external speakers, you can't stream sound into your ears and output through the speakers at the same time. And for those TVs that let you do it, whoever is wearing the hearing aids will hear some kind of distortion, echo, screeching during commercials or music. That's because hearing aids are NOT noise-cancelling devices. They'll hear whatever sound is in the room (the TV coming through the speakers) PLUS whatever is being streamed into their ears (the TV coming through the streaming box).