Why is an AV receiver required for a Home Theatre System? Isn't the speakers with the DVD player good enough?

Question

Any ideas?

Answer 1

An AV receiver is not actually required. However, a receiver of some sort is. Most speakers, especially ones meant for use with home theater, are what are called passive speakers, meaning they cannot power themselves. So they need a receiver to amplify the sound. Unless you have Active speakers, which are self powered, you will require a receiver. The easiest way to tell if you have active or passive speakers is that active speakers need to plug into the wall outlet, and passive do not.

So to answer your question, if you have regular speakers, it will not be good enough. If you have active (Self powered speakers) it will work.

Answer 2

The receiver is what amplifies the signal. Also, it decodes the signal. Without the receiver, all you have is 0's and 1's and no sound then once it turns the 0's and 1's into sound it has to then amplify or boost the sound to actually get anything out of your speakers. There are home theater systems referred to as HTIB's (Home theater in a box) where the receiver is built into the DVD player. Other wise most dvd players will not decode nor amplify the audio with the acception of dvd players capable of SACD which still does not amplify the signal.

Answer 3

DVD players do not have power amplifiers needed to drive speakers., even if they decode the Dolby Digital into 6 outputs. You can get separate amplifiers for the 5 speakers needed for Dolby 5.1 surround sound (subwoofers usually are self-powered.) Getting an A/V receivers gives you all the amplifiers in one package, plus switching circuits for both audio and video if you have multiple sources (such as a TV tuner). Some A/V receivers offer additional features as well, and it is often less expensive to get all the amplifiers in one package.

Answer 4

Good question. Depends on what you like and want to hear. If you like what you hear on your system and don't want to improve anything , then I would say stick to what you have. But for home theater it might be a horse of a different color. Home theater is what it says it is, it recreates the experience of being in a movie theater in your home. It requires a minium of requirements such as size of your TV screen, and speaker quanity and placement. And to do all of this electronic processing is the AV receiver, it is the heart and soul of the home theater experience. Without it you can not get any type of surround sound processing. But there are no dollar requirements to get surround sound. You do not have to spend $1,000 or more to get home theater. Buy what you can afford. True the more you spend the better quality you will get, but to get basic surround sound a home theater in a box will suffice until you can afford better.

Answer 5

A Home Theatre system has at least five channels of amplification. 2 Front, 2 rear and 1 center channel make up the recording channels for most systems including Dolby and THX. For home theatre you must have a decoder and five channels of amplification.

Answer 6

OPtical, only because of fact the pros say it, to me there is rather little diffence in sound quatily, because of fact they the two sound lots greater helpful then Analog yet once you get a HDMI DVD participant, it is going to hold sound via the a million cable, and it may carry DVD-a and SACD via the a million cable, so that's style of greater cleanser useing those formats

Answer 7

some speakers are designed to hook-up with just a dvd player those are pretty cheap compared to buying great individual speakers but if you have the money i'd rather go with an avr and separate speakers. individual speakers doesn't built-in amp with them unlike those that hook up with dvd.