What can I do about this?

[NTB]

I was getting tired of the terrible sound that I get from the tiny little speakers on my 20" TV, and I'm too cheap to go out and buy a reciever & speakers . So as an experiment I yanked the Altec-Lansing ATP3's off of my computer and hooked them up (TV, DVD, and 2 game systems all run into one A/V switch that I've had for a long time, and the sound is run out to the speakers. The whole mess is set up in my bedroom). It sounds *much* better, but the volume from the TV gets too loud too quickly - I don't have much range to work with. Is there any way I can fix this?

PS: The sound from the TV comes from a line-level out with no volume control, so playing with the volume on the TV doesn't do any good. And there is no headphone jack on the TV that I can run the sound from.

Nate

 

[Kenji4861]

1. You can take the tv to Radio Shack to get it repaired.

2. You can buy a real home theater set where you can adjust volume on the speaker.

For a 20", you should just take it for a repair.

 

[NTB]

The speakers aren't broken, they just don't sound very good. I guess I really should quit trying to skimp and buy a little HTIB, but the Onkyo setup that I want, even at a couple hundred bucks, is more money than I'd like to spend at the moment, being a college student and all.

Nate

 

[TechnoKid]

the line level output works for tv sources and whatever dvd players are hooked-up?

i would just uhh use the volume control on your speaekrs.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
the line level output works for tv sources and whatever dvd players are hooked-up?

i would just uhh use the volume control on your speaekrs.

That's what I'm saying:

the TV (There's a line-level out on the back, by the inputs), DVD player, and everything else has the sound run through the A/V switch that I've had for a while; video from the switch goes out to the TV and sound goes to the speakers. This seems to work pretty well for everything else, but the volume from the TV is too loud - I can only turn the speakers up a little bit before it gets too loud.

somehow I doubt I can do anything about it, but I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask.

Nate

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: NTB

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
the line level output works for tv sources and whatever dvd players are hooked-up?

i would just uhh use the volume control on your speaekrs.

That's what I'm saying:

the TV (There's a line-level out on the back, by the inputs), DVD player, and everything else has the sound run through the A/V switch that I've had for a while; video from the switch goes out to the TV and sound goes to the speakers. This seems to work pretty well for everything else, but the volume from the TV is too loud - I can only turn the speakers up a little bit before it gets too loud.

somehow I doubt I can do anything about it, but I thought it'd be worth a shot to ask.

Nate

ahh i see what you are saying, its as if the line out from the tv is to high? i don't know if they sell stuff to turn down the volume on line outputs from and audio source.

 

[DeRusto]

you either need some sort of line de-amplifier for the line level output, or you can go to radio shack and for about 5 bucks get a cable that allows you to connect the output from your regular RCA jacks on the tv to the 1/8" jack on the speakers or the switch

edit: i'm assuming that using output from the RCA jacks would allow you to adjust the volume on the tv

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Kenji4861
1. You can take the tv to Radio Shack to get it repaired.

2. You can buy a real home theater set where you can adjust volume on the speaker.

For a 20", you should just take it for a repair.

What kind of idiot would take a TV to Radio Shack to get their tv repaired? Remind me to never take your advice.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: Kenji4861
1. You can take the tv to Radio Shack to get it repaired.

2. You can buy a real home theater set where you can adjust volume on the speaker.

For a 20", you should just take it for a repair.

What kind of idiot would take a TV to Radio Shack to get their tv repaired? Remind me to never take your advice.

lol That's what I was thinking too.

Nate

 

[MercenaryForHire]

"If it's too loud, you're too old."

- M4H

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
"If it's too loud, you're too old."

- M4H

Hey, I'm only 23, cut me some slack

And I'm (partially) deaf to boot - so if it's loud to me, I know it's loud to everybody else.

Nate