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Ok, here goes:
I just bought an ONKYO TX-NR609 AV receiver.
I bought this because my brother in law got "us" a SONY DAV-TZ130 DVD Home Theater System....so...I HAVE TO USE IT.

Because I have a Vizio TV, Wii, Vizio Blu Ray, Motorola Cable Box...etc... the dude at Frys told me to buy the ONKYO Receiver that it would simply my piece meal AV stuff...

To my chagrin, the receiver has "screw-type" terminals. The SONY has some sort of clip terminal. So, having stripped all the SONY speaker wires screwing them in (positive to positive and negative to negative) to the appropriate terminals the surround sound seems to be running fine.

However, my subwoofer will not work...because...it has an RCA style input...just one with purple color. Underneath it, is also a purple RCA input that says Pre-Out.

I have tried splicing it to three types of cables..

1) Regular mono audio RCA Y split F / F to M. No Joy.
2) A cable for at Radio Shack that was already stripped with a positive and negative wires...the positive was shielded and the negative was not. These wires were inside a normal black insulation covering and lead to a RCA M. Again, No Joy.
3) So, I dropped .00 on a Monster Standard Audio THX (certified) Subwoofer Connection. It says for subwoofer with an RCA Mono Audio because it is a M to M RCA. I stripped the insulation back and it was shielded with Copper wire around the shielding to reduce interference, gold contacts, etc..... but it does.did have a red and white inside the shielding. Again, strip, splice, and plug into receiver... NO JOY !!!

In ALL cases I switched to pre-out...nothing.
In ALL cases I spliced the pos and neg to the other wire to make sure I had pos identified correctly.

In 'set-up' the receiver can find and test and calibrate all speakers but it does not find nor test the subwoofer...at the end of the setup it says no subwoofer. The testing noise calibration goes through every speaker except the subwoofer.

I don't know what to do. By the way, I threw the clips away to the SONY so I cannot attach back into that...Homer Simpson moment. I am using the HD DVD and the stereo tuner on the SONY unit to appease my wife. Every thing works except for the subwoofer.

Help !!??!!

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Yep I bought me a sound system for my room. This is a lot like the one in my living room (which is also by RCA) this one has a built in Blu-Ray player and surround sound speakers. Only thing is there is no optical port for audio. So you use the old white and red composite audio cables to get the sound from the tv. It's a great 8 investment though and I'm really enjoying all the booming Boogerific sounds! -Booger

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I have a philips home theater HTS3450 system. The dvd player has stopped working. can i replace just the dvd player (maybe with a blu ray) and connect my current, working speakers?

Here's the issue: I have a 6 year-old "home theater in-a-box". There is a receiver that is also a dvd changer. In the back is a "digital coax in". So I went out and bought the following in order to connect my PS 3 to this receiver/dvd player:

1) an optical cable
2) a digital coaxial audio cable
3) an optical/coaxial converter

Here's what I did: I hooked up the optical cable to the PS3 "optical out". Then the other end of this cable went into the "optical in" on the converter box. I hooked up the digital coaxial cable to the "coaxial in" on the converter box. I hooked up the other end of this cable to the "coaxial in" on my receiver/dvd player.
My Playstation 3 is hooked up to my tv with an HDMI cable.
Once all this was done, I went into the PS3 menu and adjusted my audio settings to "optical cable".
Now, when I try to play a game there is no audio, only video. What could I POSSIBLY be doing wrong???????????? I knew this wasn't going to go smoothly, and I was right.
If I could get this hooked up the right way I would (esentially) have a Blu Ray surround sound system, and that would be SWEET. Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong??????????????

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I just received my LG LHB336 Home Theater System and I really like the sound from the speakers but I was really disappointed with the subwoofer. I am a bass junkie and my 150 watt Logitech system has better bass than this. I was looking into the Polk PSW505 powered sub but I didn't know if I would be able to this use it with my receiver. I am new to home audio so if you could answer in simple terms I would appreciate it. Thanks
Here is the link with the specs to the LG system

http://www.amazon.com/LG-LHB336-Blu-ray-Theater-System/dp/B004MSP5Y2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309410911&sr=8-1

I need help researching a receiver for our home theatre system. It must be compatible with our blu-ray (Panasonic DMP-BD605). Any suggestions for someone who doesn't know jack about this kind of thing?