TSi100 Hook Up

stmcdonald

Help! I am completely frustrated.

I have Polk TSi100 speakers I am attempting to hook up to my LG LCD TV. We have a Yamaha RX-V685 receiver for the connection.

I have hooked the HDMI between the TV and the receiver, and the speakers from the receiver to the each speaker with speaker wire. I can not make it work.

Then I went and got a digital optical chord and plugged that in, still it does not work.

Can someone please give me the simple answers to getting my speakers to work?

How does the hook up go? Do I need to set the receiver or TV to something special?

Thank you.

Spencer

wutadumsn23

Hey Spencer, first off welcome to Club Polk. I'll take a shot at your question, although you are obviously pretty frustrated and I can tell that by the way you kind of jump around in your post. It sounds like you are trying to get sound from your TV to play through your speakers. Do you have a Cable or Satellite box? If you do, that will be your source, not your TV. Run a digital coax or digital optical cable (whichever your box supports, it may be both) from your box to your AVR's inputs. Then hook up your speakers from your AVR to the speakers using the applicalbe front L/R speaker terminals on the back of your AVR, Red to Red, Black to Black. Finally you may need to change some settings on your AVR to make sure that the audio source for whatever channel you are using on the unit (DVD, Video 1, Video 2 etc.) is either optical or coax, whichever one you end up using. I am not familiar with your AVR, nor was I able to find any info on it on Google, so that may be something you have to check the manual on. That should hopefully fix your problem, if not report back and we can hopefully get it figured out for you. Also, one way to make sure you have the AVR/Speakers hooked up right is to turn on your radio and see if you get any sound from the speakers. If you do then you know it is something with the settings, or the connection from your cable/satellite box. If no sound then double check your speaker wire connections. Good luck.

-Jeff