Last night, Donna calls out to me to say, “Hey, I can’t get any sound out of the TV.” Well the first thing I thought of I might of knocked a plug out of the power strip. I was behind the TV a little while previous to see how come our vertical blinds can’t be opened fully. You can open the two halves to the ends fine, but the rotation of the vanes gets stuck at about 75 degrees. That is really fine with us, but the prospective next owner of this house might have an issue. Well, whatever is wrong1 it wasn’t readily evident.
I followed the power cord down to the strip and it was plugged in. The first troubleshooting step with electronics is to reboot, so I yanked out the cord. Dang, wrong one. I pulled out the Cable/TIVO box cord. So I had to sit contemplating my stupidity for 5 minutes while that rebooted. Unplugged the right cord, and plugged it back in and still no sound. Using the TV remote I changed back to the TV’s speakers to make sure that wasn’t the problem. It wasn’t. Next step is to get out the instructions for the VISIO sound bar. Turns out there is a setting on that remote to reset to everything to the default setting. After that I used the speaker test setting to see whether I was getting anywhere.
“Left Speaker”________________________”Center Speaker”_________________________”Right Speaker”
Then silence, no sub woofer and no rear surround speakers. The sub is connected to the sound bar via bluetooth, so the manual suggested that I try to re-pair the two. You have to press a button on the back of the sub down for 5 seconds, a small light would start blinking. You then go to the bar and hold the power button for 5 seconds. The lights on the sound bar would flash back and forth until the two units hooked up. Problem was the sub woofer light never came on. Turned the sub off and back on. Tried the pairing routine again and once again the sub never lit. It was pronounced dead at 7:17 PM on August 20, 2019.
Although I bet it was electrocuted dead way back in April when the house power was abruptly disconnected. We didn’t notice because we rarely watch anything that has surround sound. So for now we we are going to go with the just the sound bar.