My 96 year old father who is very hard of hearing has the 42LF5600 TV and has a terrible time hearing from 8 feet away. I bought him some expensive head phones which plugged into the the audio jack (there is no earphone jack) in the back but he didn't like having his ears "totally blocked". Next I bought expensive BOSE speakers (2) and couldn't get the proper wires to connect everything. The speakers were for a computer and the connectors didn't fit the rear jacks on the TV. I guess I'm going to try a surround sound setup and put a couple of speakers right next to his head. Do you have any other suggestions? I've tried everything the Best Buy techs could come up with. It used to be so easy to just clip a couple of wires on the TV and run speakers.