Friday, January 3, 2020

Tech Tip: How to Connect Your Smart TV to an Amplifier

Happy New Year to all!

Today I'm a bit giddy and eager to share to all of you on what I found out just a while ago since I haven't found an easy way to connect our smart tv to an amplifier in the cyberspace.

What we have now is a Promac Amplifier that was given to us since my aunt relocated in the province. We have a Devant Smart TV at home and I got curious if I could connect this to the said amplifier.

Promac Stereo Karaoke Power Amplifier

The instructional diagram in the amplifier manual is a bit understandable. However, in the diagram I will still need an external audio/video player. It's a bummer because I don't have any.

Promac diagramatic manual


And so here comes my Google search.

From what I read based on feedbacks, it is necessary that you have to assess the available sockets in your smart tv and compare it those in the amplifier.

For the smart tv I noticed that there is a headset socket and so I'm thinking that I might need a 3.5 mm jack cable (for those who are not familiar, this is the other end part opposite of your earphones/headset).

I've also read that I might need a digital to analog converter. 

Amplifiers usually have what they call an RCA cable output. You might have encountered this type of cable that has a yellow, white and red cables attached to each other and another set of these 3 colors at the other end.

My mind was set to buy a digital to analog converter at first at Handyman but good thing it wasn't available and instead I was able to find a 3.5 mm jack with 2 sockets at each end which only costs around less than 50 php. I thought maybe I could plug the red and white portion of the other end of the cable which was attached to the amplifier. If my experiment fails, I could try to find and buy that converter.

I went home ecstatic to try and test my hypothesis. Fortunately, it worked! Yay!!