Re: attaching external speakers to an LCD television

Post #337,141 by lincoln 12/11/10 7:47:28 PM Reply	Re: attaching external speakers to an LCD television 1. Always used the internal speakers 2. N/A 3. Tried toggling back and forth - no help. 4. Haven't bought any speakers since I can't find any that don't require being hooked up to an A/V stereo receiver. 5. Looking for any advice/recommendations in that department (that's the reason for the post). "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Post #337,159 by boxley 12/11/10 11:15:01 PM Reply	no old speakers in a closet? splice them into the headphone jack, hit up a goodwill for speakers Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #337,187 by Ashton 12/13/10 1:17:48 AM Reply	Re: attaching external speakers to an LCD television OK.. there IS a menu toggle for 'Internal' and External. From your A/V component comment, I assume that there is no access to the TV-set's audio amp (except headphones and some RCA jacks on the back for 'Audio Out') -- Right? RCA: the standard since forever, re all audio gear not using 'balanced' inputs and special Pro quality connectors. That means yes, you do need (not a whole A/V Receiver with tuner and mondo input switching, but-) any old 'component' stereo amplifier (usually having bass/treble, volume controls and a low-level preamp (maybe not included in many post-LP-records models.) Probably on the bargain shelf at Goodwill et al will be several such, or even with tuners you apparently don't want - Cheap. Odds today are against finding any of the great-sounding 'separate power amps' of yore -- they've all been sold for $$ on eBay, maybe several times. A standard stereo cable-pair gets from your A/V output RCA jacks (ignore the Video one in a 3-set) to an amplifier input, a 'high-level' one like AUX, meaning: ~ 1V max input signals, and not millivolts. Thence to any old zip-cord (or cut up an extension cord.) Do keep the +/- red/black 'phasing' correct: by following the ribbed wire in the zip-cord pair from AMP [+] output to SPEAKER [+] / Red connector. Out-of-phase gets you less bass. In my Sony , I have two sub-options, besides Internal/External; 1) Fixed level out == means using the external amplifier's VOL-control. 2) Vol-controlled out == TV set Volume control varies signal to the external amp. I use 2) into a NAD stereo amp --> decent speakers. Vastly better sound than built-in. Maybe this failure was a Good thing, once you hear why decent speakers in adequate enclosures blow away something tiny, stuffed into a corner of the TV case. :-) Luck, I.
Post #337,188 by static 12/13/10 5:39:34 AM Reply	And in case you miss it... I use 2) into a NAD stereo amp --> decent speakers. Vastly better sound than built-in. Seriously, very very few TVs have built-in speakers as good as even a very average stereo. Most of them don't sound as bad as they could in part because us humans are very adaptable and the art of making ordinary sound speakers sound better than crap is very well known. (Myself, I use a full stereo amp with very high quality speakers... driven by a media PC and projector. :-) Big sound and big picture. But I have good hearing, too.) Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.

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