Bose Companion 5

[danb93]

I purchased some bose companion 5 speakers and want to connect them to my panasonic viera. I have tried using a RCA cable but no sound comes out of the speakers. Is there anything else I can try?

 

[Mr. McMac]

are you sure you have the speakers plugged into the audio outputs, not inputs on your Panasonic?

 

[danb93]

are you sure you have the speakers plugged into the audio outputs, not inputs on your Panasonic?

my panasonic just has one set of audio plugs. not sure if they are input or output

 

[Mr. McMac]

If it's not working they're probably inputs. Do you have a Headphone (3.5mm) jack on your TV? If so you can always get a cable from monoprice.com 3.5mm to RCA

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021817&p_id=9768&seq=1&format=2

 

[danb93]

If it's not working they're probably inputs. Do you have a Headphone (3.5mm) jack on your TV? If so you can always get a cable from monoprice.com 3.5mm to RCA

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021817&p_id=9768&seq=1&format=2

Yeah I have one of those cables, however it loses the 5:1 surround sound

 

[Mr. McMac]

True. That said, I'm not familiar with your speakers or TV. How many inputs does your speaker system have?

 

[danb93]

True. That said, I'm not familiar with your speakers or TV. How many inputs does your speaker system have?

the speakers are meant to be for computers, it comes with a USB connection. However there is a control pod with a headphone and audio output connection

 

[Mr. McMac]

If you were going to be using the right/left RCA analog connections, you're not going to get real surround sound anyway. Maybe simulated? I'm not up on Bose systems to be honest

 

[mfram]

Did you buy the speakers primarily to connect to a TV? If so, you really didn't buy the correct speakers. The C5s will go to sleep eventually if you don't plug them into a computer via USB. That's what the C5 speakers are designed to do.

 

[mjojr]

Hi Guys, anyone can help me out please. I bought a 2nd hand Bose Comp 5 but it didn't came with the USB computer cable. Where can I get one apart from Bose? Is there an alternative that I can get from the likes of Amazon or Ebay. Thanks in advance.