Acer sound issues....

[legendary70]

Hello. Ok here we go.


I have an Acer H243H monitor. It has an HDMI, DVI and VGA connection in the rear. It also has an audio in. It has built in speakers that suck!


I hooked up my direct tv wireless box to it and have it working in the kitchen for my wife. Now like I stated before the sound sucks....can barely hear it. I tried plugging in some desktop speakers, my wireless JBL speaker both via the audio in jack in the rear of the monitor. NOTHING! No sound.


the directv box has only an HDMI, USB, Digital Audio (orange one) and a/v out (svideo looking one).


Why? I read that the reason might be it only has an audio in and not an out. If so......how can I make it work? Any adapters? Something at radio shack? Thank You.

 

[legendary70]

oh does it really matter if the rca coaxial I am using to plug into the digital audio on the box is a red one and not the orange one?

 

[legendary70]

I just bought this a radio shack. I ran an rca from the digital audio on the back of the box into a audio adapter 1/4" stereo male to rca female then into a 3.5mm female and then into my jbl flip speaker......basically the rca from the box into the female part of the audio adapter then the male part of the audio adapter into the female part of the other adapter and then finally the male part (3.5mm) into the flip....no dice. NOthing. dam it. Now what?

I don't need power just enough to be able to hear it properly.

 

[slipperybidness]

oh does it really matter if the rca coaxial I am using to plug into the digital audio on the box is a red one and not the orange one?

This is slightly difficult to grasp, but I'll give it a shot.

If you plugged your speakers to the Audio In Jack on the Acer, then of course you will not get sound! That is for audio IN, not audio OUT!

The color of the cable won't matter at all. However, if the output on the box is orange, then I believe this is a digi audio out. You need to convert the digi out to analog and then plug it into your speakers. Some speakers will have a digi in that will handle this for you.

How is the box hooked to the Acer right now? Only HDMI?

Does the "box" have red/white for L/R outs or not?

The last post you did, won't work either. You must get an analog signal to the speakers and you are instead feeding it digi.

Edit:
Don't double post the same thread in different areas. That is LESS likely to get you help and MORE likely to give you a bad rep.

 

[markw]

Thanks for wasting our time, dips**t. I also answered this HERE in the beginners forum.

I don't know who gave them to you but you've certainly earned those red chicklets.

Now, it would serve you right if nobody else chimed in.