Can I connect plasma to stereo amp?

milkydrink

Hi,

I have a 42" Pioneer plasma TV. I also have a Pioneer stereo radio/CD, it has a small unit & a small seperate amp to the side (they were bought as a complete set though, not seperates).

I'm thinking I can connect the two?

On the back of the stereo there are 4 empty holes. They are called Line 1 in & out jacks. Two are red & two are white.

On the TV there are LOADS of sockets/holes........

Can we connect the TV to the stereo via the these leads?

Do we get the one lead with the two jacks (I think they are called jacks?) at each end? So 1 lead & 4 jacks? Or do we get 2 leads & that would be 8 jacks?

I'm thinking if the TV is connected straight to the amp/speakers then the sky HD box & the DVD player will be by default?

Thank you to anyone clever who can help me.

Kim

scheming_gypsy

yep!

connect the red and white on the TV to the red and white input on the amp.

you will need to change the channel on the amp when running the tv through it or you'll get no sound.

Tallymanjohn

When you go shopping for the lead, you're looking for phono plugs (the red & white ones), not jack plugs. Also you want the 'line in' sockets on the amp, not the 'line out' ones. Check your tv manual to find which sockets to connect an amplifier to - as you've noticed, new TVs have loads of different inputs/outputs.

panny300

you should have no problem connecting the red and white phono leads from the tv to the amp,but if you are thinking of using it to watch say a film on your tv, and have the sound coming out of the stereo speakers,it will not sound right,you will have the sound of a persons speech coming out of both speakers,plus the tv.
if you turn the sound of the tv down,then the talking will be out of the left/right speakers,so the sound is'nt from the direction of the person speaking,you would be better looking for a second hand home cinema amp(if you don't want to spend a lot of money).
you won't be disappointed and wonder why you did'nt buy one earlier.

milkydrink

panny300 wrote: »

you should have no problem connecting the red and white phono leads from the tv to the amp,but if you are thinking of using it to watch say a film on your tv, and have the sound coming out of the stereo speakers,it will not sound right,you will have the sound of a persons speech coming out of both speakers,plus the tv.
if you turn the sound of the tv down,then the talking will be out of the left/right speakers,so the sound is'nt from the direction of the person speaking,you would be better looking for a second hand home cinema amp(if you don't want to spend a lot of money).
you won't be disappointed and wonder why you did'nt buy one earlier.

You mean one of them things that look like a DVD player with all the little speakers & 1 big speaker?

If you do mean that, its because I wouldn't want all the wires & all the speakers all over the place.

Plasma is one chimney breast & I have a wall unit next to it in an alcove, all the stuff (sky box, DVD, stereo, ect) are in the unit, with the 2 speakers tucked up out of the way on top.

I couldn't hide another 5 speakers & the wires, unless you can get wireless & use less speakers?

panny300

if you don't want the wires and speakers around the house and you want a surround experience have a look at something like this.(i have tried putting a link but for some reason none of them work in this thread),so google yamaha ysp900 and have a look,it is not cheap but is the next best thing to a full 5.1 system and it does work.
a centre channel on a 5 speaker setup carries the speech,and is always placed above or below the screen, because placed anywhere else the speech sounds detached from the screen and never sounds right.
there are cheaper versions of the above speaker but probably nowhere near as good.

milkydrink

Does that have to go under or over the screen then?

milkydrink

Would the leads be no good then?
I though Pioneer TV & Pioneer stereo it should be ok?

Benefits are already there, no extra eyesores needed. Wires get buried in chimney breast & painted over.

tomstickland

Yes, just connect a pair of phono leads from the output of the TV to a spare input on the amplifier.

you should have no problem connecting the red and white phono leads from the tv to the amp,but if you are thinking of using it to watch say a film on your tv, and have the sound coming out of the stereo speakers,it will not sound right,you will have the sound of a persons speech coming out of both speakers,plus the tv.
if you turn the sound of the tv down,then the talking will be out of the left/right speakers,so the sound is'nt from the direction of the person speaking,you would be better looking for a second hand home cinema amp(if you don't want to spend a lot of money).
you won't be disappointed and wonder why you did'nt buy one earlier

If the output is stereo and the speakers are arranged in the correct position then it will work fine. I don't understand what you think the problem would be.

panny300

sorry i have been away. it depends how far apart the speakers are from each other and the tv because as the speech would be coming out of the two speakers,it would be like talking to someone but their voice coming from 2 feet to the side of their mouth,it's terrible.
the ideal spot for the single surround speaker is usually under the tv.

milkydrink

The stereo speakers are on top if a wall unit a few foot to the right of the TV & they are placed about 3 foot apart. So the nearest one is 1.5 foot to the right of the TV & the other one is that 1.5 foot plus the gap of 3 foot, so 4.5 foot away.
I know speakers are susposed to be arranged further away from each other, but that is the only place I can "hide" them & I don't want to "see" them.

So as you can tell, I'm not up for a TV sound system that is on display.

I'm happy to connect a wire (I can bury in the plaster) between the TV & the amp. I may even consider a "proper" TV sound system, but ONLY if I can hide it. If anything has to go above or below the TV screen, I'm not up for that.

Taking all that into account, is their any system I can buy which I can "hide"?
OR, will the lead between the TV & the amp/speakers work?
I'm a bit worried about what you said about it sounding funny?
OR am I best just leaving it as it is?

TV sound comes out of TV, stereo comes out of stereo speakers?

Thank you