Quote Originally Posted by nameth
They do provide sound, but my buddy tells me that they should be 10 times louder (as I told him the bass sucks and he needed a sub woofer). He told me that if you can not control the volume of the speakers from the back of the speakers themselves, then they werent set up right, and thats why the subs in the speakers arent working properly.
The highlighted part proves to me that your "friend" is an idiot. The jury's still out on you. Did you even bother to look at the receiver's manual to see how to connect the speakers or even investigate how to connect speakers to an amp in general?

There's only one way to connect speakers. You have one wire with two sides.Each amp channel has one matching pair of output terminals, one red and one black. They go together. You cna't use the red from one channel with the black from another channel and expect it to work.The red amp terminal goes to the red speaker terminal. The black amp terminal goes to the black speaker terminal. Repeat for wach speaker as needed for each channel.

Quote Originally Posted by nameth
At any rate, I played around the all the connections for about an hour yesterday, and nothing. Obviously the tower speakrs are used as the fronts, and from what I can understand, the one red/black connection that goes to each speaker helped give the speakers a proper power source as the led indicator shows that power is going to the speakers, but I think the problem is I can not find the right port to place the opposing ends of those connections into the amp.

And I tried every hole And yet no added speaker volume..
I bet I can name one hole you haven't tried.

I repeat: You have one wire with two sides. There's only one way to connect speakers. Each amp channel' has one matching pair of speaker terminals, one red and one black. They go together. You cna't use the red from one channel with the black from another channel and expect it to work.T he red amp terminal goes to the red speaker terminal. The black amp terminal goes to the black speaker terminal. Repeat for wach speaker as needed for each channel.

Of course, you have to look at the back of the receiver and make sure you use the corrosponding red and black terminals. If you can't get this straight, all bets are off. Hire a pro. ...or call yer buddy over.