25-02-2024 05:09 PM
Hi all - I hope someone can stop me tearing my hair out! I have 3 samsung TVs, 2 of which are fine. However, I bought a small one for the bedroom (model UE24N4300AE), and didn't like the tinny sound. My son got me a sound bar for xmas, and the problems started. The bar works fine on optical for normal TV, but I can't use any apps (Netflix, iplayer etc) as all I get is a loud buzz. I tried aux by connecting to what I assumed were the two 3.5mm RCA ports (there are five - red/white at the bottom, and red/blue/yellow at the top so used the bottom 2 red/white). Plugged into the sound bar, and nothing. Then tried plugging into a Bose speaker and nothing again. There is no headphone socket, and no bluetooth on the TV that I can find. There is a setting for wifi, but it is greyed out and no instructions on how to connect my Bose speaker that way. I have audio set to aux/optical and PCM. Most other options are greyed out. I have gone from loving to hating Samsung TVs in five minutes flat! Any ideas what to do to get aux sound working - or indeed, to connect the speaker via wifi? I don't want to throw good money after bad and it's driving me mad, and would rather not start converting the optical setting if I can help it as I might just get the horrid buzzing on apps again! PS: connections on the soundbar are optical, USB, BT and headphone jack.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice
25-02-2024 06:40 PM
25-02-2024 07:00 PM
Sadly, no. I wish there was! I don't think my youngster thought of that ...
25-02-2024 07:19 PM - last edited 25-02-2024 07:28 PM
25-02-2024 07:36 PM
Thanks for trying to help! I have done as you suggest. There is no 'bitstream' option for digital audio output, only for HDMI ARC. Setting back to TV speaker means the soundbar is cut out. The streaming apps work fine on the TV speaker, but not the soundbar. I think I've pretty much run out of options!
25-02-2024 08:21 PM
25-02-2024 08:31 PM
No Xbox, but I do have an old STB that I could try which has a small selection of apps. I'm wondering if it is to do with the soundbar not having 5.1 sound - it was, I would imagine, pretty cheap. Very frustrating that I can't simply plug and play 😞 My big soundbar in the lounge works via optical with everything including my 50 inch Samsung TV. I'm now considering getting a different soundbar with HDMI input and 5.1 sound to see if that works better (and working out how to disguise it to look like the one my son bought, so he doesn't get upset!) .
25-02-2024 08:38 PM
26-02-2024 07:21 PM
Thank you for all your help. I finally bit the bullet and got an inexpensive bar with an HDMI port, and it worked like a charm straight out of the box. Conclusion - the even cheaper soundbar my son bought me either doesn't work properly or the TV doesn't like it. I will, however, have to put it somewhere visible so he knows (or thinks he knows) I am using and loving it!
26-02-2024 07:35 PM