I thought the higher the watts, the better the system, but why are some 500 watt systems more expensive than the 1,000 watts? I know brand of course... but any other advice? I want a good system, but i have NO idea what the sound difference would be, and mostly when they are hooked up in stores I don't like to turn them up loud because of the other customers....
2006-11-16 13:43:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
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2006-11-16 13:57:35 · update #1
It's more about quality than quantity.
Don't worry about watts so much when quality is so much more important. However, when you compare watts, make sure the watts are measured in RMS (not max watts) and into 8 Ohms.
Quality brands to consider are Pioneer Elite, Sony ES, Yamaha, and Onkyo... and if higher end is what you can afford, the Arcam, Rotel, and NAD.
H a p p y
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T h e a t e r i n g !
2006-11-17 19:26:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The higher the watts doesn't mean "the better the system". In home audio it's all about quality. You should only pay attention to the RMS watts. That's the amount of continous power the source will output. Cheaper products often list peak power which should be totally ignored. Equally or more important is how clean that power is that you're listening to. Generally the more expensive the audio product is the better the quality will be resulting in a lot better sound.
One thing to remember is you need 10 times the wattage to get twice as loud meaning 100 watts is not twice as loud as 50 watts.
brands I would recommend for receiver's are: Denon, Onkyo and Yamaha
speakers: klipsch, definitive technology, paradigm
2006-11-17 23:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by Mike F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amplifier is the power processing inside your surround sound system's receiver. This is what sends the power to all of your speakers and processes all the sound decoding and signal for your devices in your home theater receiver. The Receiver is the actual core unit, where all of your components are connected, this is commonly referred to as the amplifier. So if you have a surround sound receiver, you have an amplifier. There are also some systems out there in which the amplifier is nothing more than the power supply for the speakers, and all the components are connected to another device called a Pre-Amp. All devices are connected to the Pre-Amp which is then connected to the amplifier to power the speakers. If you purchase a Home Theater System with Receiver, DVD, Speakers, etc, you will have an amplifier built into the Surround Receiver. I Hope this helped.
2016-05-21 21:49:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on several things:
Quality of the product - a Smeg&Grommit 200W amp is perhaps a lot cheaper than a Technics 100 Watt amp
It also depends on what you mean by watts.
RMS - True meaningful number
Music Power - This is a way of doubling the figure so it looks like a more powerful system.
PMPO (purely mythical power output).
The last one is a way for cheap products with perhaps as little as 20 watts RMS to pretend to be producing HUNDREDS of watts and manage to avoid prosecution.
ALWAYS compare like for like. Ask what the ampliers output is in RMS.
2006-11-16 13:51:27 · answer #4 · answered by Mark T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what country you're writing from.
However, in some countries there are two ways of showing power output. The 'true' wattage... and the PMPO (Peak Music Power Output) wattage.
Some manufacturers use the PMPO figure since it's always larger. The rule is to check the true power output.
Hope this helps.
2006-11-16 13:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by wilkes_in_london 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a measuring unit
1 watt =amount of energy transmitted (sound)through an unit area per second
2006-11-16 13:51:46 · answer #6 · answered by Karthik K 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
watt was the question?
2006-11-17 03:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by General T 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋