Polk TL1600 5.1

oldman51

I’m not that tech savvy so just opened our new system and see it appears to need wiring for speakers. Why would they not come with everything needed?
Also as new to this home theater system world, I can’t find an actual full setup video anywhere for this system.
Do we need to buy the wiring and hook it up to the tv or cable box? Keep seeing stuff about a receiver....
Old guy confused here.

tonyb

Yes, you need a receiver and a hdmi cable, speaker cables, and a subwoofer cable. Possibly a digital toslink cable too depending on your cable box.

cfrizz

Welcome to Club Polk!

Please tell us what the rest of your system consists of, then we can give better information.

It sounds like you wanted to get a surround bar instead of separate speakers. With a sound bar you would just hook it up to your tv.

mrloren

To run this speaker system you will need the following as a minimum

Speaker wire
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07588K6PB/ref=psdc_3236443011_t1_B001WI2I72

decent AVR
https://www.accessories4less.com/make-a-store/item/denavrx1400h/denon-avr-x1400h-7.2-ch-x-80-watts-networking-a/v-receiver-w/heos/1.html

Sub cable
https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Black-Lab-Cable-3-0m/dp/B00FEKP50Q/ref=sr_1_11?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1546188891&sr=1-11&keywords=audioquest+subwoofer+cable

might just be better to return it and get a sound bar