Comments on: Is There A Way To Hook Up A Speaker System To A Tv (via Phones Jack Or Other) And Have Both The Speakers…?

By: Wesley

Wesley — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:31:09 +0000

thats what my tv does… i have a philips tv hooked up to an onkyo surround sound system and the sound comes out of the TV and the speaker system, if thats what you mean. to tell you the truth im not sure why it does that (i can do this stuff, but it confuses me to death), i just turn the tv speakers down and leave the surround sound volume up. my infinity’s are better than my tv’s speakers anyway. but yes it is possible

By: dumbass2

dumbass2 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:40:00 +0000

no. get a stereo with a cable/vcr/dvd/cable input

By: Ant

Ant — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:23:20 +0000

Yes, but without knowlege of all your components it is hard to tell you how to do it. If you have a TV with just CO-AX in, you cant. If you have a couple RCA jacks, it gets easier. And a VCR, DVD or Receiver. Run the input CO-AX to the VCR, then output to the TV, this makes a circuit for the TV to have sound. Use the RCA out on the VCR to go to the receiver.

By: joebob

joebob — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:26:08 +0000

First of all you will need a reciever or an amp to power the other speakers you are planning on using. If your TV has analog audio outputs on the back(the round white and red ones) use those and connect it to the reciever or amp, then run speaker wire from the reciever or amp to the speakers. If your tv only has a headphone jack, then you will need to get a headphone to analog audio adapter, then use analog audio cables to connect to the reciever. You cannot connect your tv directly to speakers because it does not have enough power flowing through the line to power them.(unless you get some computer speakers that have a power cable or something)

By: SRN

SRN — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:30:55 +0000

The headphone jack is not meant to power external speakers other than the little ones in a headset and most tv’s cut off the internal speakers when headphones are plugged into the headphone jack so this isn’t a good idea.
Most tv’s have audio output connectors, these are usually on the back of the set and are usually color coded red for the right stereo channel and white for the left. These cannot power a speaker either, they are what we call line-level outputs. What you can do with them is connect them with cables (RCA connector type) to an amplifier such as a stereo receiver or audio video receiver.
Often times, a simple stereo receiver (the kind you connect your CD player to that has a built-in FM radio) will have an “auxiliary” input on the back and a switch on the front to select this input. Run the RCA cables from the red and white connectors on the back of the TV to the auxiliary connectors on the receiver (red to red, white to white). Switch the receiver to auxiliary and you should be able to listen to the TV through the speakers you use to listen to the radio or cd.
If you want to listen to the TV internal speakers and the external, you can. The volume control on the TV will control the TV speakers and the volume control for the receiver will control the external speakers. Usually this does not sound too good because the speakers are not matched. In general, a modest upgrade in sound quality can be achieved by putting a left speaker to the left of the TV, as you face it, and putting the right speaker on the right and using only the receiver volume. Turn the TV volume all the way down (with some sets you can disable the speakers through a menu).