Buying A Home Theater Receiver
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Buying a receiver is one of the most important decisions you have to do when building your home theater. The receiver has a range of features including: connecting and switching audio sources, connecting and switching video sources, decoding surround sound formats, amplify an audio signal and send it to your speakers, setting radio stations and serves as a liaison between you and your home.
The first thing to consider is whether you want a receiver at all, or would you be better off buying a separate decoder, amplifier and tuner?
Despite being more expensive - not to mention the extra space needed - separates do have some advantages. You can choose your own combination of components, you can upgrade each item individually and not lose all the functions, if one part fails. In addition, after each electronic component in a separate box for improved sound quality for all of them on a circuit board.
However, to distinguish the path is more expensive, more complicated and requires more space than to buy the receiver. And most of the people of uneccessary. In today's receivers do a great job in all their functions.
What should you should watch out for the purchase of a receiver? The first thing is to make sure that both the input LL you need this device to connect to it. It seems obvious, but it is very easy to forget. At the very least should have digital audio inputs (optical and coaxial), Dolby Digital and / or DTS. It must also have analog audio inputs for CD players, set-top box and possibly DVD-Audio or SACD (the latter two are now digital outputs, so it is less easy to pirate CDs). You should also consider whether you want to route all video sources, such as TVs, DVD players and game consoles through the receiver. So, you can modify the sources, a controller, very easily. But if you want to do this you must ensure that the receiver has video inputs you are interested enough. These could be the S-video or component video outputs are the best, or if you are in Europe, scart.
The power amplifier is also important. The largest room you have for your home theater, the more power you need. And it ensures that power is quoted in watts per channel - the last thing you want is to return home with 100-watt receiver and discovered that his power is shared among the eight speakers of 7.1 startup you. It is impossible to specify the power of the amplifier should be, but if your home theater is a room of reasonable size, instead of a suspension of aircraft, 100Watts per channel should be fine.
Finally, remember the remote control. This is the main interface between the user and the receiver and spends much time with her. So make sure you are comfortable and easy to use. The last thing you want is having to spend years wading through screen menus to get what you want.
You should also make sure the video output of the receiver is of high quality, so you should be an S-Video, component, or Scart.If you can test before buying the receiver, it needs to compare the quality of the video signal a DVD player when connected directly to the screen and comparing it to when connected via the amplifier. There should be no difference in terms of quality.
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Buying a receiver is one of the most important decisions you have to do when building your home theater. The receiver has a range of features including: connecting and switching audio sources, connecting and switching video sources, decoding surround sound formats, amplify an audio signal and send it to your speakers, setting radio stations and serves as a liaison between you and your home.
The first thing to consider is whether you want a receiver at all, or would you be better off buying a separate decoder, amplifier and tuner?
Despite being more expensive - not to mention the extra space needed - separates do have some advantages. You can choose your own combination of components, you can upgrade each item individually and not lose all the functions, if one part fails. In addition, after each electronic component in a separate box for improved sound quality for all of them on a circuit board.
However, to distinguish the path is more expensive, more complicated and requires more space than to buy the receiver. And most of the people of uneccessary. In today's receivers do a great job in all their functions.
What should you should watch out for the purchase of a receiver? The first thing is to make sure that both the input LL you need this device to connect to it. It seems obvious, but it is very easy to forget. At the very least should have digital audio inputs (optical and coaxial), Dolby Digital and / or DTS. It must also have analog audio inputs for CD players, set-top box and possibly DVD-Audio or SACD (the latter two are now digital outputs, so it is less easy to pirate CDs). You should also consider whether you want to route all video sources, such as TVs, DVD players and game consoles through the receiver. So, you can modify the sources, a controller, very easily. But if you want to do this you must ensure that the receiver has video inputs you are interested enough. These could be the S-video or component video outputs are the best, or if you are in Europe, scart.
The power amplifier is also important. The largest room you have for your home theater, the more power you need. And it ensures that power is quoted in watts per channel - the last thing you want is to return home with 100-watt receiver and discovered that his power is shared among the eight speakers of 7.1 startup you. It is impossible to specify the power of the amplifier should be, but if your home theater is a room of reasonable size, instead of a suspension of aircraft, 100Watts per channel should be fine.
Finally, remember the remote control. This is the main interface between the user and the receiver and spends much time with her. So make sure you are comfortable and easy to use. The last thing you want is having to spend years wading through screen menus to get what you want.
You should also make sure the video output of the receiver is of high quality, so you should be an S-Video, component, or Scart.If you can test before buying the receiver, it needs to compare the quality of the video signal a DVD player when connected directly to the screen and comparing it to when connected via the amplifier. There should be no difference in terms of quality.
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