Hello,
I have a pair of JBL Northridge E60 tower speakers. I know these might be a little bit dated, but I literally got them for next to nothing a couple of years ago. My neighbor was moving and sold them to me for $50 (for the pair!). Brand new condition. I have been using them just fine for the past couple of years. I did not have them hooked up to an actual receiver. I had them hooked up to an actual power amp (QSC GX3) that my brother let me have.
Long story short, I just got a new TV. My new TV (Samsung KS8500) has no analog audio out. My old TV had all of the analog audio out ports and the way that I had the system hooked up to the old TV's headphone jack, I could get volume control to the speakers from the TV headphone jack (because the power amp has no remote etc, its just an amp). The new TV ONLY has digital optical out. So I bought a converter that takes digital optical and converts its to analog, just so that I could get my power amp/speakers going with the new TV. But the digital optical out on the TV has no volume control, and since im using a power amp and not a true receiver, I have no control on the volume except for the power amp knobs. (No Remote). As you could imagine, its very annoying having to get up and physically adjust the volume on two channels every time I want to adjust the TV volume.
So, I started looking into getting a receiver. NOTE: my speakers are 8 ohm (90W continuous, 360W peak)
Right off the bat I noticed that any 2 ch receivers don't have optical audio input (it would be nice to get rid of that converter box that I currently have and reduce some of the clutter). The surround sound receivers 5.1,5.2,7.1 etc obviously all have digital optical input and it would be nice to be able to add a few speakers and upgrade my existing system to surround sound, but they tend to have a pretty low power output per channel. Almost EVERY SINGLE surround sound receiver that I looked at, was a 6 ohm......
So for instance 700W total, 140W x 5 @ 6ohm.
Sounds nice, but my speakers are 8 ohm. Which I know will work fine, but ill be getting like what 70W out of that receiver at 8ohm? That is pretty cruddy.
Coming from my current power amp, which is 300W @ 8 ohm PER CHANNEL. Which may be overkill for these speakers, but with a receiver at only 70-80W @ 8ohm, I fear that I am not going find it loud enough anymore.
Are there any decent surround sound receivers that operate at 8 ohm? Am I overthinking this and 70-80W will be fine?
I have a pair of JBL Northridge E60 tower speakers. I know these might be a little bit dated, but I literally got them for next to nothing a couple of years ago. My neighbor was moving and sold them to me for $50 (for the pair!). Brand new condition. I have been using them just fine for the past couple of years. I did not have them hooked up to an actual receiver. I had them hooked up to an actual power amp (QSC GX3) that my brother let me have.
Long story short, I just got a new TV. My new TV (Samsung KS8500) has no analog audio out. My old TV had all of the analog audio out ports and the way that I had the system hooked up to the old TV's headphone jack, I could get volume control to the speakers from the TV headphone jack (because the power amp has no remote etc, its just an amp). The new TV ONLY has digital optical out. So I bought a converter that takes digital optical and converts its to analog, just so that I could get my power amp/speakers going with the new TV. But the digital optical out on the TV has no volume control, and since im using a power amp and not a true receiver, I have no control on the volume except for the power amp knobs. (No Remote). As you could imagine, its very annoying having to get up and physically adjust the volume on two channels every time I want to adjust the TV volume.
So, I started looking into getting a receiver. NOTE: my speakers are 8 ohm (90W continuous, 360W peak)
Right off the bat I noticed that any 2 ch receivers don't have optical audio input (it would be nice to get rid of that converter box that I currently have and reduce some of the clutter). The surround sound receivers 5.1,5.2,7.1 etc obviously all have digital optical input and it would be nice to be able to add a few speakers and upgrade my existing system to surround sound, but they tend to have a pretty low power output per channel. Almost EVERY SINGLE surround sound receiver that I looked at, was a 6 ohm......
So for instance 700W total, 140W x 5 @ 6ohm.
Sounds nice, but my speakers are 8 ohm. Which I know will work fine, but ill be getting like what 70W out of that receiver at 8ohm? That is pretty cruddy.
Coming from my current power amp, which is 300W @ 8 ohm PER CHANNEL. Which may be overkill for these speakers, but with a receiver at only 70-80W @ 8ohm, I fear that I am not going find it loud enough anymore.
Are there any decent surround sound receivers that operate at 8 ohm? Am I overthinking this and 70-80W will be fine?