TV sound interface - 'Dallas' in HiFi?

TV sound interface elektor april 1982 - 4-25 Some readers may be fortunate enough to possess one of the newer TV sets already equipped with headphone and/ or tape recorder sockets. If that is the case, the connection of a screened lead to the auxiliary input of a stereo system is sufficient. This will allow JR Ewing"s intrigues and dulcet tones to achieve a reasonable HiFi quality. If no improve- ment in listening pleasure results, then the script writers are probably to blame. Readers who are ardent followers of heavy metal or other kinds of loud head-bashing music would probably make good use of a headphone socket if it is made available on the TV set. Irrespective of the quality, members of the family and certainly some neigh- bours may complain about the quantity. TV viewers may question the need for a TV sound interface to the output signal. An electronic solution like the one described here would seem to be a worthwhile compromise: By means of an optocoupler, a safe separa...