KD-65A1 Subwoofer output issue

[ArianHD]

Hello,

I love great picture and I'm not fan of great home theater multichannel sound. However I missed a little low frequencies. When I discover on my TV the option Subwoofer under Headphone/Audio out, I become very happy. I run to my near electronic shop to get an active subwoofer. You can imagine my disappointment when I discover that the option subwoofer separate NOTHING! All frequencies are passed to the woofer. Even on 5.1 tests on YouTube I hear all channels from sub and nothing when LFE!!! Wonderful! Now I have a sub I can not use Smiley Sad

Hope I missing something and you can tell me...

[IamNic]

Hi @ArianHD,

to which port did you connect the subwoofer?

- Nic

[ArianHD]

Hi  Nic,

Thank you for riching out.

I connect my subwoofer to headphones (with a stereo headset adpting to LFE's mono RCA) and set the headphones as subwoofer on Audio settings.

[IamNic]

Hi @ArianHD,

since you mentioned in your first post, that the setting is called Headphone/Audio out, the TV may also have a stereo chinch output somewhere on the back.

- Nic

[ArianHD]

"Stereo chinch"? Not familiar with this term. Help pls

[IamNic]

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ArianHD schrieb:

"Stereo chinch"? Not familiar with this term. Help pls

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The red and white plugs (connectors are colored as well).

They look like this.

Presumably your headphone (TRS) cable has these connectors on the other end as well.

- Nic

[ArianHD]

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@IamNic wrote:

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The red and white plugs (connectors are colored as well).

They look like this.

Presumably your headphone (TRS) cable has these connectors on the other end as well.

- Nic

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Yes. It's exacly like that. Standard stereo jack to RCA https://goo.gl/HFf6Hu then RCA stereo to RCA mono https://goo.gl/kcv3Fp

[IamNic]

Hi @ArianHD,

what does the input on your subwoofer look like?

Is it orange? (since you go back from stereo to mono it is probably a coaxial port - a port which has nothing to do with Chinch and requires a different signal type)

- Nic

[ArianHD]

Hi Nic

It's just black https://goo.gl/ngrz9H and the model is Pioneer S-21W.

[IamNic]

Hi @ArianHD,

then it is even a dedicated subwoofer input.

While the plug fits I am quite certain, that a direct input that way wouldn't work.

At least I have never seen a setup like this without a receiver in between the TV and the woofer.

Have you looked for a Chinch output somewhere else on the TV?

- Nic