09-07-2012, 06:02 AM
deckeda wrote:
[quote=lazydays]
... audio output (monitor to 1970's stereo) with variable audio level ...
Unless something's happened and the market's reversed course, modern TVs only have digital outputs, typically just 1 TOSLink and no headphone jack or other analog output.
There are cheap and questionable D/A converters available but what you want is a new surround receiver. You may consider that grossly overkill. I did too, at first but the alternatives all suck more.
Put the '70s receiver in your "audio" or other room.
Yeah, very few new TV's have analog audio out. Since I essentially use my TV as a monitor - I don't have cable, and I seldom watch OTA TV - I have a somewhat ugly but workable solution. I take the analog audio outputs of all my video devices - DVD player, Roku box, ASUS OPlay, VCR - and run them through a switch. The output of the switch box goes to a line input of a stereo. I don't have a surround sound receiver. :-)