I received a Yamaha YAS-107 sound bar to connect to my Samsung UE46S8000U TV, It should just be a simple job of connecting an optical cable or an HDMI one. I have tried both, but get no sound output. Something is working as the TV display the volume setting of the Sound Bar when it is adjusted. Any suggestions please?
All good advice in the other posts, but I failed totally to connect my Panasonic sound bar to the replacement Samsung TV. Presumably one (or both) are smart enough to refuse to play with the competition. PITA as I had built a nice table for the DVD and PVR to stand on, which hid the base unit and all the wires.
First make sure you are using an HDMI that supports ARC (Audio Return Connection) - not all do. Often its HDMI 2
Next you need to go to the sound output settings on the TV and select HDMI/ARC rather than internal speakers.
The sound bar is probably preset to accept ARC - but check its settings
- I know I had to do some tweaking on my Yamaha RX1060 processor.
Lastly I found that quite often that is still not enough - I got to the situation where my LG TV was looking like it should be sending, and the amp looked like it should receive and still nothing. I had to turn on the data communications[1] over HDMI on as well. At that point it all sprang into life.
[1] different makers have different names for this like auto link symlink etc. They seem to support at least a common subset of features.
Some can, but its a facility (ARC) that needs turning on usually.
(It can get quite confusing what is going where when you have a AV map in the middle and DVD/Blurray one end, TV the other trying to work out what is sending sound where!
More than enough to exhaust my patience, though; and I am normally pretty thorough about searching such things. I would have Googled too, but I can't recall what I found.
Yes this is right. somebody was telling me that the only sound bars which he ever had no problems with were Sonos, but I'd imagine there is some trick to design to make them preset to the default. I find it very amusing and I know we slagged them off, but scart leads tended to switch things in a sensible way when plugged I. The new hdmi and optical cables seem to support the policy of I/O confusion, tater than any thought out sensible default! Brian
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