When I watch TV on the trainer it is too loud for the rest of the house (so it has been decreed).
My TV is pretty new, so I have all kind of jacks back there, including a headphone audio out jack.
This jack is not controlled by TV volume (it is just ON all the time), so whatever headphones I would plug into it will need to be self amplified (so I can turn them up and down).
I want ear buds not big cans, because of the huge amount of salty sweat flying around the trainer.
I figure I have these options:
1 - wired ear buds (with very long cord) that are self amplified. Do these exist? Recommendations?
2 - wireless ear buds that plug into this jack that are self amplified. Do these exist? Recommendations?
3 - some device that I can plug into the TV (not into the head phone jack) and make it send Bluetooth audio, then buy blue tooth head phones. Would it matter if these are self amplified or not? Would this even work if I just plugged the Bluetooth transmitter into the USB on the back of the TV?
My preferred option (I think) is #2, but as you can see, I don’t know what the hell I am doing (other than making too much noise while riding the trainer).
I’ve got nothing, other to say I was also told several years ago that the sound from the TV in my pain cave apparently travels up the duct work and into the bedrooms upstairs which was not appreciate by the sleeping family at 5:30 AM. I have been using rubberized ear buds which allow me to hear the TV much better and it drowns out all the noise from the trainer. My simple TV is a Toshiba with a built in DVD player, no high def or anything, but it is wired with cable and it has a jack in the front for headphones. I can turn the sound up and down via the TV remote. Once you get a system, I think you’ll like it.
Do you use a Roku? the new Roku’s have a very cool feature, there is a headphone jack in the remote.
Do you use a Roku? the new Roku’s have a very cool feature, there is a headphone jack in the remote.
Damn! I have 3 ROKU’s (1 for every TV in the house) but none have the headphone jack.
Get a Jambox, put it close to you and so that it is not too loud and your ears can breathe.
I am reviving this thread because I have been spending tons of time on the trainer and I am still not happy with my solution (which is a long cord with an amplifying adapter). It works OK, but it just isn’t loud enough on it’s maximum settings to hear some of the lower volume TV stuff.
More ideas appreciated.
Not great idea, but this is what I am using
I am using Motorola S-11 BT with TaoTronics Bluetooth Transmitter for TV, but mainly I put the TV on mute and use the headset to iPhone Pandora for some upbeat music. The sound quality is not as great coming from the BT TV transmitter to be honest. The headset has decent enough sound from the iPhone and is good for about 4 hours on a full charge.
http://thecyclingaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/03/motorola-s11-flex-hd.html
Whether this solution works or not will depend on the source of what you’re watching. With the caveat that most of my TV watching is coming from Hulu, Netflix, or my iTunes library, I accomplish what you’re trying to do with an Apple TV.
What I do is pull up the content I want to watch on my phone, then use AirPlay Mirroring to push the video to the TV via Apple TV. Then, with the actual TV volume turned all the way down, I listen to the audio through my iPhone’s standard earbuds.
There are some examples where you can get this to work with live TV (example: you can watch ESPN via their WatchESPN app) but for most major network broadcasts, it’s a limited option.
Whether this solution works or not will depend on the source of what you’re watching. With the caveat that most of my TV watching is coming from Hulu, Netflix, or my iTunes library, I accomplish what you’re trying to do with an Apple TV.
What I do is pull up the content I want to watch on my phone, then use AirPlay Mirroring to push the video to the TV via Apple TV. Then, with the actual TV volume turned all the way down, I listen to the audio through my iPhone’s standard earbuds.
There are some examples where you can get this to work with live TV (example: you can watch ESPN via their WatchESPN app) but for most major network broadcasts, it’s a limited option.
This is awesome and might actually work for me nearly all the time. Will try soon.
Bluetooth earbuds are def the way to go. I use it on a laptop connected to a monitor, so the BT is easy for me, but it’s so much better than a wired setup and the Jaybirds sounds great and are sweatproof (although I have killed one under warrantee, was replaced by them.)
There are powered adapters to get audio to BT from the TV, but someone else can help u with that.
My experience with wired earbuds were not good. First, there was a fair amount of audio quality deteriation if the cable is 10+ feet, ‘muddy’ sounding. Next, my sweat would run down the headphone cord to the adapter cord (to make it longer so it would reach) and actually corroded them together. Then they all died together.
I’ve been using BT for the past 2 years, and it’s def worth the upgrade if you train indoors.
personally use some cheapo tdk noise cancelling in ear plugged straight into the tv and use the tv remote to control the volume…
no noise for others and no trainer / fan drone to what ever i’m watching…
least cost and it works…
Mobile version is my PC with same headphones… when travelling for work etc…
Well… as luck would have it, I updated my iDevices to iOS 8 tonight (I’m a developer and can access the beta) and the approach I described above stopped working. Now, whenever I send video to my Apple TV via Airplay the audio gets transferred to the TV too and no longer comes out of the phone (or iPad). Not sure what’s up.
If you already have an Apple TV go ahead and give it a go - in my case it might be a setting that got messed up. But if you don’t have an Apple TV I wanted to send you a “wait a minute” caution before you went out and bought one. iOS 8 might break this function (god knows why).
I’ll report back if I figure out what’s up.