AV receiver must have what to hook up amp

[g48dd]

I am really new to all this. I have a Korean HDTV that is made in China AVOL its ok came from military PX, I am in the middle of the desert right now in a wooden shack ( my shop ) I hook a pretty beat up Logitech 506 set of speakers to it ... what I can say is that it works and I am not complaining as I have to look at where I am. But I am going to be here awhile maybe 3 years already been here 7. TV sucks so why not just start watching Blu-Ray movies with friends and begin to improve the situation. So if I get a real AV Receiver what does it have to have to some day add amp to it? I am 56 so all this HDTV is pretty new. I know I can't afford big name brands amps like McIntosh but I could afford in a few months some nice looking Emotiva's say start with XPA-3 but for now just a receiver and what needs to be on the back of the receiver for me to eventually hook separate amps up? Or is all this covered in an article here if so just point me in that direction

 

[bikemig]

If you want something simple that sounds pretty good and doesn't cost a lot, you could just go for a soundbar like this, http://www.amazon.com/ZVOX-580-Low-Profile-Single-Cabinet-Surround/dp/B0055FZIX4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314617003&sr=8-1, or this http://www.amazon.com/Boston-Acoustics-TVee-Model-30/dp/B004Y46G2O/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1314617039&sr=1-1.

 

[g48dd]

That’s not quite what I am looking for, I don't understand something. When I was younger and we are talking just high end stereo & Hi-Fi, if you wanted to go with sepearte amps for speakers you bought a Pre amp to control everything. If you bought a receiver it already has an amp and it was not possible to run separate amps from it, you had to get rid of it and change to Pre Amps & Tuners. I have been looking around some and I saw a Denon Receiver that was also running two Emotiva Amps. In the 60's and 70's you would not have been able to do that without going into the case and doing some rewiring .... so I was asking what is on the back of a receiver that allows you to do that? or do all receivers do that? I have been looking at an Emotiva XPA-3 and thinking it could run the front L & R and subwoofer and the Denon 1912 could run everything else ... but maybe not every receiver can do this and I need to know what to look for? I hope that makes things a bit more clear.

 

[markw]

Let's start with some theory...

There are two main areas that define receivers. They are "features" and "performance". Both cost money and the key to marketing them is to find the proper balance between the two in order to keep the cost to certain levels. You can have receivers that concentrate on performance and skimp on features, or you can focus features and skimp on performance. Likewise, manufacturing cost is a third area but it's not quite that obvious at first blush. It's only after the failure rates go up does it become noticable.

If you want to buy a receiver with an eye to eventually adding an external power amp, you need to look for one with preamp outputs for all channels, not just the subwoofer and zone 2.

Preamp outs would be a feature. The Denon 1912 does not appear to offer these.

These arent difficult to find but aren't generally on the bottom rung receivers, not that the 1912 is junk, it's not, but you have to go a few rungs up the ladder before they start appearing.

 

[g48dd]

Thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for. It gives me a place to start looking.

 

[3db]

Yamaha used to include pre-outs as well in their midlow to mid series but liek Denon have moved pre-outs to the RXA series starting with A800/A810