Converting Sony CRT to flat screen TV

tatest wrote:
I went through this, wanting to hook a new TV to a stereo system that was working well for me, rather than moving on to surround sound.

I've found lately that most new TVs have only digital audio out (usually optical but sometimes also a wire) to feed a surround sound system. As long ago as eight years it was getting hard to find TVs with line level analog stereo outputs, so shop carefully. The extra outputs are more often on higher priced sets.

You can come off a headphone jack, if the TV has one, but it is not the same thing as a connection for an amplifier. Levels and exoected impedences are different, level might be controlled by TV volume control, and output is likely equalized for headphones (or whatever sound mode is selected for TV speakers) rather than being level across the frequency spectrum.

You can always add a sound bar to the TV, if it doesn't match to your stereo system.

Yeah,so I purchased the TV, in this case a ROKU/Haier brand that has a headphone output that did in fact provide volume control output. This was the only unit in the store that controlled volume to the headphone via the TV volume control. I hooked this up to the pictured system via a red/white RCA to headphone cable. I had to cut the pictured cable end off and splice a red/white cable to the wire pair. This did provide a feed to the existing "theater sound" system but the top volume was maybe only about 15-20 percent of the range. Clearly, this hookup wasn't what I had hoped for so for now anyway I will live with the TV speakers.