I have hooked up stereo RCA cables to my TV's audio out ports and plugged them into my home stereo receiver. The sound continues to come out of the TV's built-in speakers for all sources (cable, DVD, composite, component). Is there a setting I need to change in my menu, or is there something wrong with my TV?
You don't say whether you're successfully getting sound out of your stereo or not. I'll assume for the moment you are. Still getting sound out the TV is perfectly normal - RCA plugs have no mechanism for automatically disconnecting the built in speakers (in this respect, they're different from a headphone socket). Solution should simply be to press the mute button on the TV remote - although this will silence the TV speakers, you wouldn't normally expect it to affect the RCA output (failing that, just turn the TV volume control right down). A.
Posted on Apr 22, 2007
This is all looking a bit odd. Checking on the net at specs for your machine, I can't find any mention at all of an audio output to RCA sockets. All they talk about are inputs.
It might be worth just double-checking the labelling on the sockets to make sure they genuinely are outputs.
I guess this goes to show that you can't always trust an internet retailer's spec sheet. Sorry I doubted you.
Having another stab at the question in the light of what we've got now: I can't see any point in having a menu option to enable/disable the RCA out, so I don't think Akai (who aren't idiots) would have gone to the expense and trouble of building in such an option.
On the whole, I think this next paragraph is a long shot - though I'll stick it in just in case. I have seen one piece of kit which had a single pair of audio RCA sockets which could be switched to act as either input or output. This wasn't a TV, and I believe they did it because they were really short of space on the back panel. I've never seen anyone else try to pull that stunt, and I can't think of any reason why Akai would want to try it on something the size of a 27" TV. If by any chance they are dual purpose sockets (and there's no hint of it in the labelling), I would expect the changeover to be done with a mechanical switch, rather than through the menus.
In the end, this probably means that the RCA outputs on the TV aren't working like they ought to. It might be worth slipping the cover off and having a quick look - if you're lucky, it may just be that the cable loom to the RCA sockets has become unplugged from the circuit card.
With a normal TV, a reasonable workround would be to route all your inputs through a switchbox and connect both your TV and Stereo to the output of that. Unfortunately, having the DVD integral to the TV is going to spoil that option for you.
Conscious this isn't going awfully well.
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Update: To clarify, I'm not getting any sound of out my stereo. If I plug my devices directly into the stereo's RCA inputs, it works fine, but the TV isn't routing sound through its RCA out. I've even used the same cables to connect devices to my stereo without any problems.
I was able to find a picture of the outputs in question in an ebay listing for this model of TV. RCA audio out is also listed in the manual and on the side of the box, so I'm surprised there's no reference to it in specs found online...
That's what I was afraid of... not sure I want to open up the cover just to fix the audio out, since I can always go the switchbox route and use an external DVD player. It would just be more convenient to use the features the TV was supposed to have in the first place ;)
Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate the effort you put into researching this for me. If I do decide to take a look inside the casing, I'll let you know what I find, if anything.
I need sound from stereo speakers
I just hook up a rca sound bar to my hisense tv using red and white audio cable and I don't have any sound coming out of the sound bar, what am I doing wrong.
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