most laptops can be attached to tv’s with a long HDMI cord and then as mentioned you get the speaker quality of your tv
Or via Bluetooth.
TV’s have an equally poor audio reproduction for the same reason they are flat which is why soundbars are so popular. As has Bern mentioned Bluetooth is the way to go.
some of us oldies can’t afford bluetooth. Qu I have a gifted bluetooth stereo unit with separate speakers of course is there a way for me to hitch it up to either my old TV or fairly new laptop and make a difference - ah now we iz gettin technical!!
Connecting it to your old TV might be tricky and the laptop also without a few details.
Make and model of all three items would help.
Make is usually displayed on the front and model will usually be found on a label on the back or bottom of the item this is quite often small and silver in colour with this info we maybe able to help setting your kit up once we know what connections you have on all three items.
On the laptop, right click the start button click Search, type in Bluetooth and see if your HiFi shows there. Connect if not paired already. It’s magic.
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THat sounds like or asumes I have already connected my blue tooth cd player to the laptop?? I have been through this process sorta before and wrecked everything so think I’ll leave it for now but thanks for tryin!
One device (laptop) detects another device (CD Player) in the vicinity. AFAIK.
ok I’ll play along with this for a while [can’t believe I;m doing this] yes did that and my laptop seems to have detected bluetooth. there is a + that says add bluetooth or other device and also sliding button to turn on bluetooth and also shows audio generic pnp monitor - see what I mean I am already out of my depth??
You are buggered … do a system restore, then turn off everything at the mains circuit board.
Only joking 
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Any chance that you could answer my question about make and model particularly of laptop and sound system?
What’s a Bluetooth stereo anyway?
What you need is a JBL speaker $50
So your say on a beach with the laptop connected to a TV? how weird is that
Bluetooth can be stereo both my JBL Flip4 and Sony headset are stereo. Though speakers are only a few cm apart in the Flip4 so separation is a moot point but the noise cancelling headphones provide great separation when connected to laptop, TV or phone.
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yes when I get to daylight the evenings are in doom!
my current stereo system [details coming later] has what seems to be fairly basic wirings from speakers to main body - the wiring is fitted into a flat white [bevelled] attachement that simply pushers into the necessary part on the main body of the blueray cd player and i assume dvd also??
well I am down under and its dark?
I do utilize headphones - stereo and can get good sound outside of the house for quite a few yards into the forest [I live in a 60 acre forest - getting complicated heh?] so the headphones are of course portable and the headphone base attached to the tv by a simple one socket cord?
right at great cost to my peprsonal safety - via electriction etc
latop acer Model N18H1
old panasonic tv model TH- C32X10A
panasonic bluetooth Model SAHKX 220
or as close to that as you can get?