Hi, I have a Samsung smart TV (UE55KU6020) which does not have a headphone socket, but I would like to use headphones so I don't keep the wife awake while watching TV after she's gone to bed (my hearing's not great so the TV is usually on a bit loud)
My setup -
The TV has integrated freeview and this is what I would like to watch mostly, using headphones and as I'm watching freeview the source is set to 'TV'.
I have a Samsung Home Theatre System/BlueRay player (HT-BD7200) which I use for the sound (TV speakers a bit tinny) and the HTS is connected to the TV via digital/optical (Toslink) cable for audio and HDMI to TV (HDMI 3). When I turn on the TV, the HTS also comes on and I can control the HTS volume with the TV remote, I believe this is because both devices are Samsung and use Samsung's 'Anynet' feature. The TV sound setting is set to 'Receiver' as opposed to TV speakers (and strangely if I set it to 'optical' the sound does not work)
The only other connectivity on the TV is 'Component In' and 'AV In'
The HTS other connectivity has 'Component Out' 'Aux In' and 'Vid Out'
Ok that's all the technical info so now here's my query -
I've read that I can buy a DAC, digital to analogue converter which will accept the Toslink In, convert to analogue and output this on AV via RCA connectors to the TV 'Aux In'. The DAC also has a 3.5mm jack, presumably where I could connect headphones? Would this work? It could be my solution? but I would have to unplug the Toslink cable to the HTS and connect it to the DAC every time I wanted to use headphones and reconnect afterwards.
I'm thinking, could I use a Digital Optical splitter to split the Toslink cable to both the HTS and the DAC? Hoping that the HTS would carry on working normally and I could leave the headphones plugged into the DAC.
Thanks for reading and any help would be really appreciated.
