What is a Receiver?
A receiver is that big, abundant affair that you bung your speakers and added apparatus into (like a DVD player, TV, CD player, Xbox, PlayStation, iPod, and etc.). Its the "brain" of the show, really. The abstraction of abutting all your apparatus to a receiver is the abstraction of audio/video switching, acceptance you to about-face to altered video sources (like TV, DVD, camcorder) on your TV
and appropriately alteration the audio antecedent appropriately - all afterwards affecting annihilation but the receiver.
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Of course, the capital purpose abaft audio/video switching with a receiver is to drive audio to alien speakers, like beleaguer complete or stereo speakers.
Most receivers acquire a deluge of inputs; up to 8 speakers and a subwoofer (more commonly, 5.1, or bristles speakers and a subwoofer), several video inputs, and alike HDMI inputs. You could bung your Xbox, Plasma, and amateur DVD into the receiver and use one alien to about-face amid all the altered video sources (games, TV, DVD video) and acquire your speakers pump out surround-sound. Let's alpha with inputs and outputs. If you don't acquire something, apprehend through the absolute how-to as best of it will be explained in detail.
Keep in apperception that a receiver is the hub of your absolute home theatre, so this how-to will actually adviser you through the basics of abutting your complete home theater.
So what the heck is all this ' stuff ' on the aback of your receiver?
I'm activity to go over aloof about annihilation that youwould acquisition on the aback of your receiver. The one I'm basing this adviser off of is a Harman Kardon AVR-247 I'm activity to alpha from the top of the assemblage and estribord assignment my way to the right, again I'll alpha at the estribord of the abutting row and so on.
The aboriginal three inputs are for antennas. An FM antenna cable would hasten on to the aboriginal jack while two apostle affairs would bung into the actual slots for AM. Of course, you don't acquire to bung your antennas in, but if you'd like AM/FM accession through your speakers, you'll appetite to go advanced and do that. These are accepted connections, so if you lose one of your antennas, aloof go buy addition for a few bucks.
You've apparently heard of blended videos. Its a actual basal videoaffiliation acclimated by best any basal (TV, DVD, VCR, especially). Its accepted and its cheap. As such, its actual low quality.
Uses an RCA Composite cable for video (yellow) and two added RCA cables for audio (red and white, stereo). The botheration is that a blended video luminance and chrominance cable combines in the aforementioned cable, fixed the affection of the picture. You lose a lot of sharpness, and the blush begins to abase from the aboriginal source. Its advantageous aback you charge the added ascribe or the accessory you're abutting alone has blended videos. Otherwise, use commodity else, like basal video. Sounds similar; actual different.
S-Video is abutting on band afterwards composite. It uses a blazon of altered Adapter (five pins in a circle ") and givesyou hardly bigger video quality. It is additionally a video-only cable, so you'll charge to bung in audio separately. In this case, you'll apparently use a brace of red and white RCA cables for your audio inputs.
Next up: a ton of blended audio inputs. These inputs use estribord approach and appropriate approach RCA cables, about red and white. They attending aloof like the chicken blended video cable, and you could use them for video alike and the chicken for audio, but let's accumulated the blush arrangement how it is;) is the sound blended bottom-of-the-barrel in audio. Its altogether accomplished for best use, but if you're attractive for aerial affection beleaguer sound, you don't appetite composite. Game systems, like the Wii or Xbox, and actual basal DVD players are aabsolute bout for blended audio.
The aforementioned goes to TVs VCRs, CD players, and annihilation that alone has a blended audio output. Plus, if you don't acquire beleaguer sound, or your receiver is alone two channels (2.1, stereo sound), you won't be Able to use annihilation but blended audio. Note that there is a blended audio ascribe beneath anniversary blended video ascribe so that it is accessible to bout them up. bung them in the amiss inputs and you won't get complete aback you're on that accurate video input.
Here we acquire one of the least-used appearance of to avant-garde receiver: 6 (or 8) approach absolute input. This is alone acclimated for two purposes: SACD or DVD Audio. SACD is an acronym for Super Audio CD. It is a proprietary audio architecture Developed bySony for appropriate CDs that are recorded in 5.1 beleaguer sound. That agency you charge a CD or DVD/CD amateur that supports SACDs, a receiver with SACD abutment (as in the picture), and of advance Super Audio CD's. DVD Audio is the aforementioned idea, altered brand, altered media (its a DVD, not a CD!).
DVD Audio discs are appropriate DVDs that are recorded in 5.1 beleaguer complete and can alone be played by accessories with abutment for them. These CDs go all the way up to 7.1 beleaguer sound, acceptation you would charge to acquire two front, two rear, two ancillary speakers and a subwoofer to adore abounding 7.1 beleaguer sound. best receivers abutment up to 7.1 now but you won't acquisition DVDs with that affectionate of adequacy for movies. 5.1 beleaguer is still the defacto standard, so don't run out and buy added speakers any time soon.
You could skip this abutting little account because it is altered to this cast of receiver (Harman Kardon). The Bridge" is a proprietary affiliation they Developed for you to connect
an iPod. You charge to buy a abstracted basal that includes a advancing base and appropriate cables to affix the iPod. It actually integrates with the receiver, displaying
menus and songs on the advanced LCD awning of the receiver. This allows you to calmly pump your tunes through your speakers, whether it be stereo complete or abounding beleaguer sound.
Of course, the music on your iPod is stereo sound, so the best you can get is apish beleaguer complete or stereo surround; the aforementioned music amphitheatre in the advanced two channels
is put through the rear and centermost channels. Some receivers do this added intelligently than others, but added on that later.
Here we acquire our high-end comprehensive inputs/outputs. Basically the aforementioned achievement wise, you acquire cilia optic access (with the aboveboard shape) digital and coaxial (just like an RCA cable).
Both of these are digital100%, admitting blended is analog. The alone way you can get accurate beleaguer complete from any antecedent is by application access one of these (or the SACD/DVD Audio option)
Almost all DVD players these canicule acquire either digital optical or coaxial outputs (sometimes, both). abounding aerial analogue cable and accessory boxes additionally appear withthese
connections so you can adore 5.1 beleaguer complete on aerial analogue channels. Choosing amid the two, there's actually no altered in audio quality, so feel chargeless to use
what you'd like (or what you're affected to).
I don't anticipate I charge an angel for the abutting plug. Its a brace of ability inputs. One is for powering the receiver, the added for whatever you'd like. This way, aback you turn
on the receiver, you accord ability to the added accessory (be it a DVD player, CD player, cable box, whatever). I don't necessarily acclaim this unless it accurately suits
your needs. It is advantageous if you're alive low on outlets, of course.
Something abroad you'll never use: D-bus RC-5 input/output. This is acclimated for bittersweet alien controls to booty over your home amphitheater system. Honestly, its not commodity any of us will use anytime. Some of the absolute high-end junkies ability be application commodity for it, but I've never alike appear beyond a accessory that uses this technology. Stick to the alien that came with your unit, or buy a affection accepted alien control. There's no charge for this option. An alternating use for this may be a bit added common: if your receiver's advanced console is Blocked (like central to cabinet), you could get an bittersweet transmitter to latch on to the advanced of it. This transmitter would angle up to addition accessory about in your allowance that will acquire signals from your alien control. The accepting accessory again transmits the remote's commands to your receiver (via thetransmitter you've absorbed to the advanced over the approved bittersweet transmitter).
Pre-outs, amid appropriate beneath the alien in/out. Pre-outs are acclimated aback you'd like to add an amplifier to your arrangement to addition the ability (and appropriately volume/sound quality). Average
users will not use this for annihilation but the subwoofer pre-out voltage. You'll appetite to run a subwoofer cable from your subwoofer to the subwoofer pre-out to accommodate it with
the appropriate frequencies. This is the Able way to affix your subwoofer to your beleaguer complete system. The added inputs won't be acclimated unless you plan on adding
an amplifier. This is awful accidental for home use. You ability add an amp if you're aggravating to ample to allowance the admeasurementof a baby abode with abundant sound, but you're not, right?
Here we assuredly get to the meat of the system: the apostle inputs! Harman Kardon receivers use bind posts for abutting speakers, as apparent in the picture. They
work by actuality alone up as your about-face them counter-clockwise, again you bastard the apostle wire in beneath the caps and bind them aback up by axis clockwise. This'll
give your apostle wire nice tug fit that apparently won't alleviate up on itself over time. added brands may use added types of connectors, but posts are actual common bind.
You ability acquire been Able to re-acquaint yourself this is a 7.1 approach receiver because of the apostle inputs.
You've got allowance for 2 advanced estribord and appropriate speakers, 2 rear estribord andappropriate speakers,
a centermost channel, and two larboard and appropriate "surround" channels which are placed about in amid your advanced and rear speakers ("side surround", or 7.1). If you acquire enough
speakers, you can go advanced and bung in those added 2 ancillary ones, but they won't comedy any complete at all on a 5.1 DVD. You would charge a DVD that supports 7.1
surround sound, and at this time, there aloof isn't a bazaar for it. CDs will acquiescently bang stereo beleaguer through all 7 speakers, though, so for some beyond rooms, that's an
advantage.
Our final set of connectors for this receiver: basal video . The best video you can get abutting to blended or s-video. You'll apprehension its a set of three cables (all for video),
usually Red, blooming and Blue. Don't anticipate that's what the cable does, admitting it separates the video arresting by luminance and two abstracted blush channels. In the past, component
did it in actuality represent R, G, B (splitting the primary colors in address and recombining portions them at the destination device), but that is not acclimated in accepted basal video
connections. basal can backpack aerial analogue video signals, all the way up to 1080p, so it is the best amount Able and readily accessible aerial analogue input.
Not apparent on this receiver are DVI and HDMI, the twodigital all-stars video connections.
HDMI is the newest, fastest, sharpest video and audio affiliation accessible today. Its the alone cable that can backpack audio and video in one-not to mention,in aerial definition.
HDMI charge be accurate by the antecedent and the affectation you're abutting it to to use all of its features. Not all DVD players, cable boxes, or receivers abutment both
audio and video in HDMI. Its acceptable added and added of a accepted now to abutment both. The advantage is clear: beneath cable clutter, college affection audio and video. You can get up
to 1080p video and 7.1 analogue aerial beleaguer complete through an HDMI cable. Newer cable and accessory boxes, DVD players, DVD players, analogue aerial and added big-ticket receivers
support the abounding adequacy of HDMI. Its the best you can get asdigital all-stars goes.
The aftermost affiliation for this commodity is DVI. DVI is digital additionally all like HDMI, but itcannot action audio signals. HDMI may accommodate a technically above image,
but I don't anticipate anyone could acquaint the difference. DVI supports aerial analogue video all the way up to 1080p, aloof like HDMI. Its actuality acclimated beneath frequently now,
but if you've bought a new computer or video agenda for your PC recently, it apparently has a DVI (or two) anchorage on it. best computer monitors use DVI now and video cards
have followed suit. HDMI is binding its way into the PC market, but its ascendancy is apparent in the home amphitheater arena.
Now that you've acclimatized yourself with accepted connections, let's bung it all together.
This allotment of the receiver How-To is activity to adviser you through hooking a 5.1 beleaguer complete system(5 speakers and a subwoofer) with a high-definition TV, to high-definition cable or accessory box, DVD player, and a 5.1 receiver.
Your TV & Components
Where you put your TV is ample abased on how it is, how ample your allowance is, and you will be sitting area. If its 50 inches, don't sit added than 10-15 anxiety away; but no less either.
To 60 "set is absolute for 12-20 feet. If you acquire a 32 inch set, try to sit no further than 8-12 anxiety away. Your receiver, DVD player, cable box, and added apparatus should be acutely abutting together, but don't abode them physically on top of anniversary other. They all get hot, abnormally your receiver. If you acquire no added choice, accelerate to attenuated allotment of plywood amid the apparatus to allocate the adviceheat.
Lay Out of Speakers
The aboriginal footfall is to lay out your setup. altered apartment alarm for altered locations for your speakers and subwoofer. If your allowance is a archetypal rectangle, go advanced and abode your two advanced estribord and appropriate speakers about even with the television on that ancillary of the room. Your estribord apostle goes against the appropriate apostle estribord corner, against the appropriate corner. Don't bother with apostle wire yet (unless your speakers appear with apostle wire absorbed already; in that case, let them aloof brandish for now). Note that which apostle is appropriate is alone estribord or abased on how you affix them to your receiver. Your speakers aren't actually appointed "left" or "right".
Depending on howyou acquired your speakers, your advanced speakers could be beyond than your rear speakers. That's how you apperceive they're for the front. Otherwise, all your speakers are the aforementioned appearance and size, and you can use anniversary for any purpose.
One exception: the centermost channel. Usually, a centermost approach is abundant beneath and added than your added speakers. It should alone be acclimated for the centermost channel. Sometimes, all 5 of your speakers could be the same, usually on a actual bargain setup. You can use any of these speakers for any purpose.
Your centermost approach should consistently go either anon on top or beneath your television set. However you acquire to do this, get it done! It's not alleged the centermost approach for nothing, you know. Any cine will pump out about 90% of the choir you apprehend and a majority of the blow of the sounds through the centermost channel. It is a awfully important basal to your beleaguer complete setup.
Your subwoofer should consistently be on the floor. If it is absurd to abode it on the floor, get it as abutting to the attic as possible. Placing it abaft objections or in closets will abate its effects. In a absolute setup, the subwoofer would be on the attic abutting to the TV (perhaps off to the larboard or right) in your band of sight. annihilation should block the ancillary of the subwoofer that air will appear out of (usually covered by a barbecue attention the subwoofer apostle itself).
When it comes to award a acceptable atom for your speakers, you ability appetite to arise them. You can usually buy accordant apostle mounts or in online stores. You can also
use absolute shelving, shelving, or buy some abode them on tables or added objects. No amount how you do it, try to accumulate the speakers as abutting to ear akin as possible. At apostle army at the beam of your allowance isn't activity to accord you the optimal Aural experience.
The aftermost affair to accumulated in apperception about blueprint is apostle wire. You'll apparently charge at atomic wire, 100 ft of apostle but you'll generally acquisition yourself application abundant added if you
try alive wire through your ceiling, beneath moquette tachée, dommage, up through the basement, or about altar to burrow it. booty abstracts and buy at atomic 10% added wire than
you anticipate youneed. You'll apparently use it!
Cabling
You charge to apperceive the altered affectionate of apostle wire accessible to you afore ambience up your home theatre. If you bought an HTIB (home amphitheater in a box), it apparently came with 100ft of angrily bargain apostle wire. You don't appetite that! Do yourself a favor: buy some high-quality, 14-guage apostle wire. annihilation college than 14-guage is aloof to attenuate and will be affected to interence, affection loss, and poor affection over best distances. Fourteen guage is a acceptable array and acceptable for best home theatres. Make abiding its additionally not too blubbery - some apostle wire artlessly will not fit in to the apostle wire jacks on some receivers.
Some receivers use proprietary apostle inputs. Sony is one example. abounding Sony receivers acquire appropriate connectors for apostle wire and will not acquire a accepted apostle wire. You'll charge to use either the Sony-provided apostle wire, booty the ends off of Sony apostle wire and put it on your own, or buy some of these appropriate connectors from Sony anon to abode on your apostle wire. My recommendation? Avoid any receivers with non-standard apostle wire posts/jacks/connectors. attending for bind posts or added jacks that acquiesce you to accelerate in bottomward progress and catch on to archetypal apostle wire.
Once you've got your apostle wire sorted out, you'll acquire to do some acid and stripping if you autonomous to acquirement your own. This is way easier than it sounds, so don't worry!
Measure outanniversary breadth one at a time, acid the apostle wire with either actually abundant scissors or a aciculate blade. Now you charge to band the ends of the wire. Use either a stripping apparatus or apparent old scissors. You can abode the scissors on the cable and acclaim administer some burden as you aberration the scissors about the cable, anxiously slicing into the artificial coating. Eventually, it'll get anemic abundant that you can track it aloof off by tugging on it with your fingers. You charge at atomic 1/4 "of apparent wire.
Now you can affix your speakers. Notes on your apostle wire the aberration amid the two ends. You'll charge to use one as your absolute and one as your negative. Sometimes the blanket is a altered blush amid the two or there is argument on one andnot on the other. accumulate clue of this-whichever ancillary you use for absolute on your speaker, use it for absolute on your receiver. Crossing the two can damage account, either anon or ancient in the future. It ability assignment this way but you don't appetite it to!
Connecting the speakers is accessible enough. advanced estribord to advanced estribord on your receiver, centermost apostle to centermost on your receiver, etc. Your rear speakers may be referred to as "Surround" or "Rear Surround" instead of "Rear" aloof, but accumulated in mind, if you acquire to 7.1 or 8.1 approach receiver, "Surround" may announce ancillary beleaguer speakers, rear speakers not.
Subwoofers
Your subwoofer is activity to be a little added complicated. There are a few alteredmeans to do it and abounding variations of inputs/ouputs on the aback ancillary of subwoofers. I'm activity to go with the best accepted and Able adjustment first.
You will charge a subwoofer cable for abutting your sub. If you don't acquire one or don't appetite to buy one, you can acting it for a accepted red or white RCA cable (or a pair, aback they are usually connected; aloof let the added cable dangle). It will work, but its actually not the best way to do it. You'll additionally charge whats alleged a Y adapter. On the aback of your sub, there should be a left/right ascribe (red and white). You bung the Y Adapter in to these access and again your subwoofer cable (or RCA cable) in the added end of the Y (note: if you don't acquire a Y adapter, aloof accept the larboard or appropriate ascribe to bung into).
Now, booty the added end of your cable and bung it into your receiver's
subwoofer pre-out voltage. Hopefully you acquire a powered sub, acceptation it gets acquainted into an AC outlet ability. All you charge to do now is bung that and your subwoofer is acceptable to.
If you don't acquire RCA jacks on your subwoofer, or it alone has apostle wire jacks (and its best acceptable not powered), you'll charge to affix it the old ancient way. Your advanced estribord and appropriate speakers will bung into your subwoofer's output jacks instead of your receiver. You'll again run wire from the apostle estribord and appropriate inputs on the subwoofer to your appropriate apostle estribord and outputs on your receiver. This way, the subwoofer is powered by thereceiver and will not assignment as able-bodied as a powered sub. You additionally booty some ability abroad from your advanced speakers with this method. A acceptable abstraction is to buy a new, powered subwoofer with band in RCA jacks.
Connecting the Dots
You've got the adamantine being out of the way. Now accomplishment it up by abutting your TV, DVD, and cable/satellite box. consistently try application the best options first. If your DVD
has HDMI and so does your receiver, use it. If your DVD alone has composite, s-video, and component, use basal video cable. aback it comes to audio, you actually need
to use digital coaxial (jacks are usually orange) or cilia optic (usually the jack is recessed into the assemblage and has a aperture on it; aback the aperture is open, red ablaze is visible). If you do not use either of these two, you won't get accurate beleaguer sound! all aback abroad fails, resort to blended (red and white) audio connectors.
Note: attending carefully at the access on your receiver. Everything is labeled, like the aboriginal set of red, green, and dejected basal video inputs ability be labeled "Comp 1". If you're application blended cablesfor your audio sound, you'll charge to bung them into the jacks that alike with "Comp 1". This ability not be bright by attractive at the receiver, so credits to your receiver's chiral to amount out which video inputs use which audio inputs. best often, you'll be Able to configure them from the receiver's centralized card application the alien control.
On somereceivers, all the basal video inputs, for example, are affiliated to a distinct blended audio ascribe (usually "DVD"), so if you affix added than one of the basal inputs, you will be aggressive for complete aback added than one accessory is active. This is why you'd appetite to configure the basal inputs to use altered audio inputs.
Your chiral is the alone way to amount out how to go about it. blended video will usually bout up to blended audio inputs with allotment conventions like Video 1 -> Video 1, Video 2 -> Video 2, etc., but cables like basal and DVI may not. You should additionally configure digital audio inputs to bout up with the video inputs you're planning on using. For example, if you're application a digital coaxial ascribe (possibly "Digital 1"), and you use basal video, you'll appetite to bout "Digital 1" with "Comp 1". Again, accredit to your users chiral for how to do this.
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