Using stero speakers through receiver not tv

RickSease · Mar 4, 2019

I have an Optimus receiver that was built in 1998. It is in excellent condition and I am trying to set up my Xbox one to have the sound through the receiver stero speakers. That model of receiver does not have an HDMI port to plug into. Is there any way
that I can get the sound to come through my surround sound system instead of the TV.

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blueamcat

You may be able to use an adapter of some kind so you can use them. Look around to see if one exists for the type of connection you need.

Miss Portia

This sounds incredibly odd. Are you using any kind of external speakers, or your TV's speakers? If external, how do you have the speakers connected to the receiver or TV?

Kiraith

ty garrett changed xb1 settings to stero only instead of 5.1, fixed it ), def better get a av/optical adaptor to use av 5.1 surround speakers or buy home theatre amp for tru dig 5.1+

Kevin Hoene

I have connected directly to this TV with HDMI. Video worked fine. Not sure if audio worked because I don't have any speakers connected to the Pioneer TV (everything goes through Onkyo receiver). I've tried plugging into the blu ray port - still no luck.
I tried hooking up my neighbor's xbox through the receiver. It didn't work. I actually have 2 of the same Onkyo receivers. I tried through the other Onkyo receiver - no audio/video.

Is there any reason the xbox wouldn't work through the receiver, but I have no problems hooking up blu ray players, etc in the same manner? I really need to run it through the receiver because I don't have speakers hooked up to this TV. HDMI should pass
video and audio from xbox to the receiver and then to the TV right? Thanks for any help!!!

NEOLINK-175

There are a few ways you can go about this. The most typical is via an AVR (Audio Video Receiver).

1. HDMI from Xbox to your TV. HDMI from TV to an AVR. Speakers connected to AVR.

2. HDMI from Xbox directly to AVR. For this you'll also need to make sure you have HDMI going from AVR to TV so the video can pass through the AVR to TV.

3. Optical out to AVR.

There is no way to connect external speakers directly to the Xbox. You would need an AVR connected to the speakers and then a connection from the Xbox to the AVR.

If you don't want to go the AVR route;

You can buy an external sound card and connect your speakers that way.

You can use an optical to RCA adapter and plug the RCA adapter into the PC speakers.

You can buy wireless bluetooth speakers if your TV has bluetooth and your TV should output the sound from the Xbox to the speakers.

Using stero speakers through receiver not tv