QuestionQUESTION: With this model TV, can you please tell me if I can directly connect a pair of composite (4 speakers in one) speakers to the RCA jacks on the back of the TV (or, on the side of the TV), and get good sound?
Thanks.
ANSWER: Composite outputs are low definition video outputs and do no carry audio signal. There are few if any TV's on the market that have speaker level output to directly drive speaker that are not powered. You would need an external amplifier in which case you would be better off using a surround sound receiver feed by audio output RCA terminals of you cable box, DVD, etc.
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QUESTION: Robert,
#1)I said nothing about "composite" video outputs, I was talking about "composite speakers" meaning 4 speakers in one, a woofer, a midrange and two tweeters.
#2) You didn't clearly answer my question, do you mean to say that I can connect the speakers to my DVD player and connect THAT to my SAMSUNG CL29M TV and get good sound?
#3) Just try to bring up SAMSUNG on the net----you'll find that virtually every site is in Spanish Language.
Thanks, please reply
AnswerSorry sir but I am a professor in audio who writes journals on audio terminology and "COMPOSITE" is a term that I have never heard used for speakers. The only time composite and speakers are used in the same sentence, is when the cabinet is made of composite material.
There are no TV's including your Samsung that have amplifiers in them to power external speakers so the answer is NO you cannot do what you want without additional equipment.
If you look carefully at the labels on the back of the Samsung TV you will see that there is composite and perhaps component video outputs. That is why I understood that you might have misunderstood the TV output.
4 speaker comprise of a phantom surround sound system. You need other equipment that you obviously don't have to make the speakers work.
I tried to be more thorough and suggest ways that you could accomplish what you wanted. Perhaps I said too much.
