Is this sound bar hooked directly to my tv or dish box or do i need a power source/surond sound to control it ?
1181019
You will need a receiver to power the speaker. It does not have an independent power source.
1181020
This is a left center right sound bar. It takes the place of 3 speakers. you will hook it up to a surround sound amp with 3pr. of wires from the left + -, right + -, and center + - jacks on the amp
1181021
Not powered. Need to be connected to an AMP. Has great sound. Added a small subzero 100 sub-woofer.
1181022
Ours runs through a surround sound receiver. I'm not sure if it could hook directly to your tv, sorry.
1181023
This sound bar connects just like standard speakers. You will need a receiver to power them.
1709871
No, u need an optical out from the TV to connect to the Sonos Sound Bar. Do not need a receiver .
1902152
The sound bar is meant to be connected to your tv. You then use your tv as your media control system, switching between the different sources: dvd, Apple TV, roku, wd tv live, etc. The one exception is using blue tooth to play music on your sound plate.
390156
Wire plugs in to sound bar to and from sub. Sound bar powers sub. its Rad buy it. I use it with an additional sound system in a large room.
1427792
You don't need a receiver with this unit! It's self-amplified. Just plug it in to your TV via HDMI.Plug your other components in to the TV as well. At worst, you'll need to run a pair of RCA audio cables from the TV back to the audio input of the Sound Bar.Hope this helps
2114844
My personal opinion is to always hook optical directly to TV. Then you can simply switch inputs on TV and you get sound from whatever input is active (e.g. Cable box, blue ray, gaming console).
1377431
Have you got a cable box hooked to your tv? If you do you have to run the sound bar through the cable box or you must disable tv's sound coming through the cable box. Hope this helps.
2095467
Unless your tv has the old audio out jacks (red white av) you have to plug it into your cable box or DVD player. I had the same problem and I had to plug it into my cable box audio out jacks. Most newer tv's don't have those jacks anymore. They have the optical audio out jack which I'm not sure this sound bar has. Hope that helps.
1638913
Yes you need an optical cable to connect the sound bar to your cable box or TV.
1994167
I connected my Yamaha speaker to an Onkyo receiver (surround sound amplifier), via speaker wires with no "connections", i.e., wires to screw receptacles on both the speaker and receiver. As to directly to a TV, you will need a receiver to amplify the sound from the TV to the speaker. At least as far as I know.
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No. It has it's own power supply. I run it thru a Sony KDL-32W650A 32-Inch 60Hz 1080p LED HDTV. A perfect combo. Great sound, great TV!, inmy "man room" which is about 260 sq. feet, so the sound bar and sub woofer are all I need. Klipsch Customer Service for any and all questions: 1-800-554-7724. Good luck. Let me know if I can be of further assistance. RW
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I turn my the sound for my tv all the way down. I use only the remote for the Vizio soundbar to control sound. Two separate sound sources. The Vizio is wonderful. Once you plug it into the optical input on tv, all sound--Xbox, Blu-ready, etc.,- comes through the soundbar.
1515306
Just use speaker cable to hook up to receiver/amplifier. Speakers draw power from amplifier so no power cable needed.
550198
Nope. This speaker requires an amplifier to drive it. If you want a TV speaker system, you can search for "TV Sound Bar" or "TV Speaker Bar". You want either a speaker that is driven off USB power (and you provide the USB power, or use the TV's USB port), or a self powered speaker (with a power adapter).
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I wish I could answer the first question. Mine is connected to a Samsung TV with an optical cable, though it has HDMI and RCA plug connectors available. My TV remote will control it, but I prefer to keep the controls separate, as there are many more options on the soundbar remote. It is occasionally necessary to work with the sync for reasons I don't understand for one, and the wide quality variations in audio input make other control features handy for good sound reproduction.
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On the back of the sound bar to the left of the main power cord is a outlet for the optical cable which is supplied with the sound bar. It is a square shaped connection. The other end goes to the optical outlet on the back of your tv. Your power connection goes through the square transformer provided with the sound bar and is plugged into your wall outlet.
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When you say "sound", are you referring to the sound from the TV itself or sound from external speakers (e.g., soundbar)?