I have a Samsung 32" HD TV (model UN32EH4003) that has abysmal sound quality, and I want to hook up an external sound system. The problem is there are no audio out jacks. None. Not even a headphone jack. So my idea is to splice some RCA jacks into the TV's speaker wires and connect a powered external sound system to those. I have no idea what the output of the TV's amplifier is, but its built-in speakers are 5 watts each, 8 ohms. Can I connect a powered speaker system such as one with two speakers and a subwoofer to that? I know very little about electronics so answer this like you're talking to a ten year old (even though I'm 6 times older than that, ha ha).
I know I could just get a sound bar and run the HDMI output from my Dish system to that with the HDMI out from the sound bar going to the TV. But I also have an external hard drive connected by USB directly to the TV for playing movies and would like the sound from that to also go through the sound system.
I know I could just get a sound bar and run the HDMI output from my Dish system to that with the HDMI out from the sound bar going to the TV. But I also have an external hard drive connected by USB directly to the TV for playing movies and would like the sound from that to also go through the sound system.