TV 42/43" Recommendation

[Rusty Nails]

This may not be relevant to the original poster, PaulSB, but may be worthy of a mention.
I have a ten year old Samsung 40’’ and I run the sound output from the headphone socket through my hi fi amp and stereo speakers which gives a vast improvement over the sound from the TV itself.
But, try finding a TV these days that has a headphone socket. I know there are one or two but choice is severely limited.
I am resigned to perhaps having to buy a soundbar when I next change my TV. Unless someone on here knows if there is an adapter that can convert a TV output socket ( HDMI ? ) to headphone socket.

If you have Bluetooth headphones I understand you can buy a Bluetooth adapter for TVs that don’t have it built-in. Not relevant of course if you don’t have Bluetooth headphones.

 

[Dadam]

This may not be relevant to the original poster, PaulSB, but may be worthy of a mention.
I have a ten year old Samsung 40’’ and I run the sound output from the headphone socket through my hi fi amp and stereo speakers which gives a vast improvement over the sound from the TV itself.
But, try finding a TV these days that has a headphone socket. I know there are one or two but choice is severely limited.
I am resigned to perhaps having to buy a soundbar when I next change my TV. Unless someone on here knows if there is an adapter that can convert a TV output socket ( HDMI ? ) to headphone socket.

Not a hifi expert by any means but sounds like you just want a DAC (digital analog converter) with HDMI input and headphone or line output. Or maybe optical input as all except cheapo TVs should have one ready for soundbars etc.
Like most things audio these are available for anything between a tenner and thousands!

How about this one? A snip at £10,495! Or this for 0.1% of that price

 

[Dag Hammar]

Not a hifi expert by any means but sounds like you just want a DAC (digital analog converter) with HDMI input and headphone or line output. Or maybe optical input as all except cheapo TVs should have one ready for soundbars etc.
Like most things audio these are available for anything between a tenner and thousands!

How about this one? A snip at £10,495! Or this for 0.1% of that price

Thank you Dadam for that info. The £10.99 item from Amazon might be just what I need when I take the plunge and invest in a new TV. I have taken a screen shot of the item so I can refer back to it.