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Originally Posted by Great68
Actually he won't even get that, those speakers don't have a surround decoder in them, they're meant to hook up to line level outputs from a sound card which does all the decoding work.
If he hooks up his TV L&R RCA's to the "Front" L&R inputs on the speakers, he will only get sound out of the two front speakers.
The best he can do is get some RCA Y splitters, and split the sound from the TV RCA's into the front & rear L&R inputs on the speakers, then at least he has 4 speaker stereo sound.
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I know some older TVs do have on-board surround decoding, but it's been years since I've actually paid attention to sound on TVs so maybe newer TVs don't include this anymore.
I looked at some pictures of this unit and there's a "matrix function" on the remote which might mean that the amplifier has some kind of DSP/surround circuitry on-board which may produce sound through all 5 speakers.
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a receiver will work if it support multi-chanel analog input. not all do, but it was something pointed out to me when i was purchasing my amp many years ago.
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You actually need a receiver with audio-preouts to use this system. The receiver will process the audio signal (from the TV, or cable box) and pass it along to the sub to amplify and play through the speakers.