[runharley52]

The receiver I am looking to purchase: Denon AVR-988


Speakers: ED A6 6T6 towers, ED A6 6T6 MTM center and surrounds. Epik Caliber sub.


Other: Samsung 52" LCD, Wii, DVD, Cable, HTPC


I will say that my knowledge is lacking when it comes to home audio. A few questions.


1)If the receiver states 110 watts per channel and my speakers say max power handling of 250 watts, does that mean I am not going to reach my full potential?


2)Is this receiver an overkill or is it underpowered for this speaker setup? I would love to save some money and buy cheaper if this is more than I need but I am also willing to spend more if the receiver is not adequate.


Thanks for the feedback!

 

[dotVIBE]

Your receiver will be fine to drive these speakers. No, it probably won't drive them to "full potential" in a music environment, but it's pretty unlikely that you'll find a receiver that will. For HT, you won't have a problem, as your sub will provide the more difficult to drive low frequencies, and the rest of your speakers will play the easier to drive higher frequencies.


1. You'd need an outboard power amp to get to drive these speakers to full reference levels. Maybe look at Emotiva's amps.

2. More money in a receiver won't necessarily buy you more output power. Most of the money in this receiver are going to the Video processor, RS-232 control and other fancy stuff. Not the amplification system.

 

[TPnBobcats]

Perhaps of more concern than the power output is the fact that it lacks HDMI inputs, at least if I am looking at the right model on Dennon's website. I don't think the Wii supports HDMI, but any blu ray player or an xbox 360/ps3 is better off with one. It also lacks support for the newest lossless HD audio formats.


Of course if your TV doesn't have HDMI and you have no intention of getting a blu ray player or a ps3/360, then neither is much of an issue.

 

[Stephen Hopkins]



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Originally Posted by TPnBobcats /forum/post/15404323


Perhaps of more concern than the power output is the fact that it lacks HDMI inputs, at least if I am looking at the right model on Dennon's website. I don't think the Wii supports HDMI, but any blu ray player or an xbox 360/ps3 is better off with one. It also lacks support for the newest lossless HD audio formats.


Of course if your TV doesn't have HDMI and you have no intention of getting a blu ray player or a ps3/360, then neither is much of an issue.

Pretty sure that model has 2 HDMI inputs with full TrueHD/DTS-MA decoding. You shouldn't have any problems with that receiver driving your speakers to reference levels in an HT environment. With those speakers, external amplification might help (especially in 2ch music without the sub) but is far from a requirement (outside of a huge room with vaulted ceilings).