Please Advice Matching 5.1 Speakers For Yamaha RX-A1050

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Bino

Audiophyte
Dear All,

Please Advice Matching 5.1 Speakers For Yamaha RX-A1050.
 
everettT

everettT

Audioholic Spartan
There isn't really matching speakers for avrs. You want to choose speakers first, then choose an avr that can power the speakers to the levels you need without distortion or clipping. What's your budget, room size, listening habits, your location?
 
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yepimonfire

Audioholic Samurai
There isn't really matching speakers for avrs. You want to choose speakers first, then choose an avr that can power the speakers to the levels you need without distortion or clipping. What's your budget, room size, listening habits, your location?
The one exception might be sensitivity. If you're using a lower powered avr in a medium to large room, you might want to avoid insensitive speakers like tiny bookshelves or satellites, all things being equal.

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everettT

everettT

Audioholic Spartan
The one exception might be sensitivity. If you're using a lower powered avr in a medium to large room, you might want to avoid insensitive speakers like tiny bookshelves or satellites, all things being equal.

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For me personally, I'd buy the speakers I like and if they require more power to to drive them I'd deal with the requirements. For me fortunately, I have and would have more than enough amplification to power any speaker. When buyers have a limited budget, my advice is the same, choose speakers first then power
 
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yepimonfire

Audioholic Samurai
For me personally, I'd buy the speakers I like and if they require more power to to drive them I'd deal with the requirements. For me fortunately, I have and would have more than enough amplification to power any speaker. When buyers have a limited budget, my advice is the same, choose speakers first then power
I agree, I just know someone somewhere has purchased a cheap receiver and some cheap, tiny 83dB 1w1m speakers, which will most definitely send that puny amplifier into clipping at a 95dB peak sitting 10' away.

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3db

3db

Audioholic Slumlord
For me personally, I'd buy the speakers I like and if they require more power to to drive them I'd deal with the requirements. For me fortunately, I have and would have more than enough amplification to power any speaker. When buyers have a limited budget, my advice is the same, choose speakers first then power
With a limited budget, I would reverse the options and choose speakers that a budget AVR can drive. My logic behind the reversal is a limited power AVR could clip when pushed too hard and damage the speakers. If budgets aren't all that limited, then I too would pick the speakers first.

To the OP, the top 3 models in the RX-A series (your's included) have stout power supplies and hardy amplifiers. You have a wide range of speakers to choose from. I'm very partial to PSB and Yamaha as you can see in both my signature and galleries.
 
everettT

everettT

Audioholic Spartan
With a limited budget, I would reverse the options and choose speakers that a budget AVR can drive. My logic behind the reversal is a limited power AVR could clip when pushed too hard and damage the speakers. If budgets aren't all that limited, then I too would pick the speakers first.

To the OP, the top 3 models in the RX-A series (your's included) have stout power supplies and hardy amplifiers. You have a wide range of speakers to choose from. I'm very partial to PSB and Yamaha as you can see in both my signature and galleries.
Sure I get it, however knowing what I know now being older I couldn't go that route. Again I certainly get it from building a system that way.
 
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yepimonfire

Audioholic Samurai
Sure I get it, however knowing what I know now being older I couldn't go that route. Again I certainly get it from building a system that way.
Klipsch offers some lower cost speakers for about $250 a pair that sound pretty good. I used to use a pair of 94dB klipsch icons i got for $120 on black Friday with a lousy htib receiver and had no difficulty achieving a clean output of 105dB.

An entire 5.1 setup could be built on $1000 budget with something like that using a low cost 50wpc receiver and a Dayton sub from parts express, and it would have no problems achieving reference level SPL.

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