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I'm a total newbie to this site and to karaoke equipment and have a question.

I have a PC Karaoke setup and I'm trying to hook up a Gerrard mixer to my Bose Lifestyle Theatre system. I know the Bose is not really an amplifier but there is an aux input so I hope it works. Anyways, this may sound silly, but here are my questions:

1) Is this the right order? PC to mixer then mixer to Bose?
2) Which output on the back of my mixer should I be connecting the cable to with the Bose? Here are my audio connection choices at the back: Aux, Tape, LD, VCR, and preout.  All these choices seem like input choices except for preout. I tried connecting my pc to the mixer aux and then from the mixer preout to the Bose aux, but it doesnt work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It would be helpful if you could tell us which mixer (brand name, model type or website) you have. Just the port "Aux" can be out or in... you never know

Well he kind of gave some general info.  
Connect the main out of the mixer into the Bose input.

Now on the flipside, you are probably not going to be happy with the result.  Home stereo equipment isn't designed for live vocals & you are probably going to end up blowing the speakers - especially in the tweeters, you;d be better off with a small pa or all in one unit you can dedicate to karaoke.

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The mixer is a Gerrard KP300. I got it used from my sister and tried googling to see if there's a manual, but didn't get anything. It's not clear from the back connections which on are outputs.

The problem is I don't know which is the "main out". The closest thing to is the preout. What is that for?

I figure I might need to get a dedicated amp, but since I'm a newbie and it's just for a casual home system. I wanna try it out first before I fork out the cash for some serious equipment.

So my home theatre system has a sub box with three tiny speakers (2 rear and 1 centre). Are the tiny ones the ones that you're saying will blow? What difference is using it for Karaoke than say for watching a concert dvd?

The pre-out will work as the main out.  

Yes the cubes are what would most likely blow first.  
The difference is home theater speakers are voiced to reproduce nice prerecorded sources like cd/dvd music/movies.  Live vocals is a completely different signal in that there is no compression, the speakers are getting a raw signal & need to be able to handle the added stress that will be placed into them which home theater speakers (home speakers in general) aren't designed for.  You may even find the sound of the vocals through the speakers are going to sound muffled as well in which you will need to adjust the eq to compensate (another possible cause to blow the high frequency speakers first).  
But then you may be one of the lucky ones that don't have problem.  If you never turn the system up while you are singing, you should be fine, however it's a lot more fun singing to a nice loud song than not.

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I see. Thanks for the info.

I tried to connect the PC karaoke to the Aux of the mixer and then from the Mixer preout to the Aux of the theatre system but it doesn't work. Any guesses to why?

Plug the computer into a channel or two on the mixer instead of an aux.  Going from the preout to an input on the stereo should work fine.

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Lonman is right, i also encounter this problem too. that why i asking abt same question as your. If i read this note earlier, i don't have this problem as he mention. My amp and speaker is not for karaoke. I bought a good mixer and end up lousy sound.
I also using bose sys. totally suck.