20 Most Recent Bose (321GS) System - Page 6 Questions & Answers

This is the quick and easy way to adapt a standard stereo 3.5mm (1/8 inch) sound output into standard RCA plugs. Ideal for connecting your MP3 Player with a 3.5mm plug to VCR's, TV's or anything else that has RCA stereo sound inputs.
General Features:
- Fits standard 3.5mm (1/8") stereo phone jack
- Gives you two male RCA (left / right) sound outputs
- Great for converting a headphone jack to standard RCA sound outputs
- 6 foot length
- Straight cable (not a coiled cable)

Generally these connectors cost between $1.00 to $5.00

Pictures to help you find them


Search google for headphone to rca adapter for more info
Hope this helps

Try and isolate the problem by disconnecting all components and reconnect them one by one. Fuzz could be comming from one particular component, or could be an internal fault in the bose amp.
Good luck!

If you get the banner, I'd say you have a working TV. You don't say if you have a VCR or DVD hooked up. If you do see if a movie will play alright. It must be the cable.

I didn’t have my video cable in the right connection. This fixed my problem.

I called BOSE directly and they patiently walked me thought a successful solution .. free of charge

Cause it's not a supported format.

Its probably 9 times out of ten what is being outputted is the issue here or the units input could be given out, if all else works but the cable/sat that is where your problem is. You might have a issue with the sat box at this point.

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Please check if the cable connecting the speaker port to the speaker is OK. To check this, connect this cable to any other port and see if the speaker is working. If so then the internal connection has to be set right by a technician from the BOSE company as they have the necessary tools to open the Base. Yes, the base has a safety fuse to save the system from spikes.

Replace the batteries from the remote control. Press and hold the TV button on remote for 5 seconds. If the red light shines bright, your remote is OK since it is showing it's programmable side. If unit still won't go on using the remote, reboot the whole system by unplugging the power cord and other wire from the Subwoofer. Wait one minute, then replug all and see if the system displays BOSE 321 in front when re-connected. If so, try the remote and if that doesn't work, your dead, the Infra red communication device from the unit to the remote is busted inside the unit and needs to be returned to the company like mine!!!!!

• Increase the volume.
• Check to see if MUTE is lit on the display. If it is, press the Mute button on the remote control to unmute
the sound.
• Be sure that you have pressed the correct source button (CD•DVD, CBL•SAT, etc.) on the 3•2•1 remote.
• Check the audio connections for the component you want to play.
• Connect the FM and AM antennas.
• Make sure that the cable between the Acoustimass module and the media center is connected securely.
• Check connections between the speakers and the Acoustimass module.
• Turn off the media center for 60 seconds, then on again, to restore communication between the media
center and the speakers.

You probably have a worn belt, or defective loading drawer motor.

You have to run an audio path with RCA cables from the TV (or the cable box, as applicable) to the Bose, then disable or turn down the TV volume.

Make sure you have the "sleep" setting turned off.?

Most amplifiers design to cut out when there is an overload, such as playing the music too loud. It helps protect the device from being damaged. If the device does it at low volume, and does it sometimes, check the wring to the speaker, something might be shorting it out intermitently.

A ps3 game was accidentally put into my Bose 321 and now it won't eject. Any suggestions

Hi,

I've sold these systems in a store for many months, and my advise so is that you don't plug it in any;ore, but contact a specialist/electronic technician to solve this.
these systems are difficult to repair when something like that occurs.

I hope this is useful, and greets,

Olivier.

Have you checked the volume control thoroughly? Because some sound system has independent volume control for each speak.

Also check the setting very well maybe it has been tampered with.

I also just hope nothing is wrong with the sound IC.

Try these first and lets see what happens.

take care.