Thursday, April 18, 2013

how do you hook up external speakers without a receiver?

Q. so i have these 2 speakers that a friend gave to me and i want to hook them up to my HDTV. apparently it doesn't have any hookups for external speakers. all it has is 3 hdmi hookups, 2 component and 3 video inputs. it looks like i can go into the menu and change one of the video inputs to an external audio source, but i get no sound. does anybody have any ideas?

A. It sounds like your TV only has inputs but no outputs so you can't hook the speakers up directly to the it.You would need an external tuner & amplifier to use these speakers.


How to connect external speakers to TV?
Q. We have a Sony flat screen HDTV and are trying to hook up auvio external speakers to the tv. We bought RCA speaker cable and connected them from the external speakers to the tv, but still cannot get the sound to come out of the speakers. The guy from
Radio shack said these speaker cables would work. Are we doing something wrong? The tv has a place for audio output for external speakers. It also has a place for headphones. Any suggestions would be appreciated on how to make my external speakers work on my TV.

A. Keep in mind that tv does not have the power to drive any external speakers. Just about every HDTV only provide you an optical audio output. This has to be connected to a multi channel receiver, home theater in a box with an optical audio input or a sound bar. Some older tv provided you a speaker on a separate enclosure to connect to the tv. Using a headphone jack is not going to drive an external speaker. Look in your owners manual for guidance. Hope this will help you out.


Connecting and External Powered Speaker to TV with Optical Output Cable?
Q. I have a brand new Samsung 32" HDTV and it has an optical audio output that I would like to connect to a external speaker system. It is a tower speaker, self amplified sold at Brookstone (Big Blue Media Tower) and it has a optical input. I know it will work as that is how Brookstone advertises it for a TV, kind of like a sound bar. My question is that Samsung says I have to control the speaker volume with the speaker remote and others online say if I set my TV menu to external speaker, the external speaker volume can be controlled via the TV remote, please clarify if you know the answer before I buy this system, thank you for your help.

A. To control the speaker volume you have to use the speaker remote.





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