This subwoofer is part of a blue-ray player with surround sound and the connection component at the end of the speaker wire is unlike any I have ever seen. Is it possible to rig a connector that will also plug directly into my Samsung smart TV?
SOURCE: Subwoofer will not work when connected
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SOURCE: No Soound on Subwoofer from Yamaha RX-V363
I have the same setup. Are you going out of the subwoofer output of the reciever? (it's purple.) then into the LFE jack of the subwoofer (also purple.) That's the only connection you need besides power. If you have those right, try using your cable for something else to make sure the cable is good. Is the indicator of the subwoofer green? Mine comes on with the reciever. Good luck!
SOURCE: digital optical output for technics 5.1 surround sound receiver
I went to the HDTV plasma manual. It stated the only way the digital optical audio output would work (from this TV) was to go to the menu, select audio and turn off the TV speakers. Basically, it had nothing to do with the technics receiver.
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SOURCE: Got a Kenwood vr405 surround receiver, a Sanyo
If you would like to use high definition audio decoding, connect the HDMI from the blu ray player to the receiver. If that it not an option for you due to lack of equipment such as an additional HDMI cable to go from the receiver to the television for the video portion of the signal, then connect your optical cable again. After the optical cable is connected, make sure the Dolby Digital decoding is enabled on the receiver, and that the media you are playing also has a version of 5.1 surround sound. Then, enter the setup menu of the player (which I suspect this is actually where the problem might reside in your case) and make sure that Dolby Digital and DTS are not set to "downmix." Dolby Digital should be set to output Dolby Digital and so on and so forth...hope this helped.
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SOURCE: Receiver cannot recognize subwoofer
As I implied earlier, take a clue from the physical style of connectors for both parts of the subwoofer function in the old and new receivers:
RCA connections are for Line Level signal between components only.
The input (bare wire) at the speaker is for AMPLIFIED signal.
You can't just modify one to fit the other and expect magic to happen. Be glad you didn't do it the other way around and modify an amplified (speaker level) outout into a Line Level input. You likely would have smoked that component.
Your subwoofer is a passive speaker, that is, like any other speaker it needs an amplifier. Many subs are self-powered (amp built-in) and they would mate well with the RCA sub output of the receiver.
Get yourself an Active (self-amplified) Subwoofer and run UN-MODIFIED RCA cables to it, according to its instructions, from the Sub Out of the receiver. Or get an amplifier between your receiver and the sub you have.
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no, the sub you mention is part of a proprietary sound system with its own connectors that don't work with other systems. the sub out-put on your soundbar wants a powered sub. if you have another amp/receiver laying around, you can connect the rca out for sub from the soundbar to your amp, (aux input on amp/reciever) cut the connector off the end of the sub wires, and connect bare wires to speaker outputs of amp/receiver.
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