JBL Creature speakers

Yes, connect the JBL to the headphone socket on your TV.

When the power to the system was applied to the speakers before you realized the cables were chewed, you blew some components in the power boards to the speakers. You could look to see if there are replaceable fuses. Otherwise a trip to the repair shop or new speakers.

Do you happen to have the model of the TV? My Samsung only has two digital optical outputs. If your'e plugging in JBLs, you may only have an analogue input which won't work.

Have you removed the bass and treble knobs to find the little thin threaded bolts ?

Look for a headphone jack plugin on the TV, and if you have one then plug the speakers into that. Otherwise if you only have RCA audio jacks on the TV (red/white plug-ins), you'll need an RCA male/stereo female adapter. I did a quick search and found this one on Amazon for $1.49:

http://www.amazon.com/Male-3-5mm-Stereo-Female-Y-Cable/dp/B000I23TTE

You could probably find one at Radioshack or a local electronics store otherwise.

Also, in case you need it, here's a link to the owner manual:

http://www.jbl.com/resources/Brands/jbl/Products/ProductRelatedDocuments/en-US/OwnersManual/Creature%20OM%20Rev%20A.pdf

You may find some on the Internet (use Google) or on EBay.

make sure your cable jacks are in the right holes.

if the cable is fixed correctly then it would seem when your dog chewed through the cable the cables met and caused a power short out that has blown some of the internal electronics components there fore the unit will not work. taking into consideration the price of jbl creature speakers it would be cheaper to replace the unit than to have repaired ..

i hope this helped

make sure you plug the subwoofer into the green jack port on your pc.

install the drivers for the speakers..