home theater question

[redneck joe]

I have an employemnt service award coming and one of the items is

Sony DAVTZ140 5.1CH DVD Home Theatre System - Walmart.com

We are wanting to get for mother in law who just built a new home. She has speakers pre-wired all over the house and want to get her something to push those speakers when she's streaming pandora. This states has only an HDMI output. Is there a converter that would take that and push thru to speakers on conventional speaker wires?

 

[canoemang]

Re: home theater question

It would work for conventional.. here is a pict of the back with connections. I would be more concerned with the amount of watts it is pushing.

 

[angus63]

Re: home theater question

The HDMI output is for sending to another component, not speakers. 5.1 indicates you have conventional speaker connections for 5 speakers (center, left, right, rear left, rear right) and a subwoofer. Just make certain the impedance of the speakers match the recommended rating.

 

[jkust]

Re: home theater question

There's a lot to think about here. I went through the process of installing a whole house audio system in my 5000++ square foot existing house with no wires or any kind. It was a massive undertaking to run the wires and category wire plus all of the other cables but I learned a ton having never even owned a set of bookshelf speakers prior much less higher end audio stuff. If I'm understanding what you want to do correctly, your suggested path isn't going to cut it. She's so lucky the wires are run because that's 90% of the work. You could sort of cobble an ultra basic system together with what you have shown and some other components but even with impedance matching volume control knobs and some other needed components, you aren't going to have enough watts to do much, much less multi room audio system.

 

[redneck joe]

Re: home theater question

The HDMI output is for sending to another component, not speakers. 5.1 indicates you have conventional speaker connections for 5 speakers (center, left, right, rear left, rear right) and a subwoofer. Just make certain the impedance of the speakers match the recommended rating.

Yeah was thinking there was a unit to use like when running RCA outputs to coax input for older tv's that don't have it.

 

[redneck joe]

Re: home theater question

It would work for conventional.. here is a pict of the back with connections. I would be more concerned with the amount of watts it is pushing.

Thanks didn't find that one. So it would work, we could hook to a speaker selector like we have? (we push ours to two sets of outside speakers).

 

[Pony]

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How many pairs of speakers are you trying to power??

You aren't going to be happy with the sound quality you are going to get trying to use a run of the mill HTIB receiver. (run of the mill is being generous here) Forget the fact that it is underpowered....by a lot. The Total Harmonic Distortion is 10%. Even 5% at a moderate volume is NOT listenable in most cases.( a decent receiver will be 1% or less) You are WAY better off getting a basic 2 channel receiver that will run 100 watts/channel peak RMS and connecting a speaker selector from that. (Most of them will have a B channel built in if you only had 2 pairs of speakers to power, and you can find them for $150-$200)

This is not to mention that the 5.1 isn't going to give you full range out of the front left/right channels you would be supplying the speaker selector with since it is still going to send most of the low frequency to the sub channel. 2.0 is made for what you are trying to do....

What you are trying to do is like getting a free 5hp motor from someone and using it to power the boat in your signature. It will push it......just not fast. You may not move at all in a heavy headwind....which would be equivalent to turning all the speakers on at once and trying to power them with that receiver.

 

[QC]

Re: home theater question

Agree that ^^^^^^ 5.1 is so not what you want for the task.

 

[redneck joe]

Re: home theater question

thanks folks we'll just get a standard amp.