Beginner Question About Mixing Receiver And Speakers

[MathewJ5005]

This is totally a beginners question that I'm hoping can be answered simply.

I have a Yamaha home theater system (HTR-3063) that has a receiver along with four speakers (2 front, 2 back) and a subwoofer. I've been using it for about 5 years now and noticed one of the front speakers isn't working. I recently came across a pair of A/D/S L400e speakers, can i replace the two front yamaha speakers with the A/D/S L400e speakers?

If I can replace them with the other speakers, would it be smart to scrap the other two back yamaha speakers?

Also, neither of the yamaha or A/D/S speakers say if it is left or right on the speaker itself, does that matter. I'm guessing that it becomes the left or right depending on if i hook it up to the left or right input on the receiver.

Also, I know almost nothing about speaker quality. Are the A/D/S speakers considered nicer than the yamahas or comparable?

Thanks for any help.

 

[lovinthehd]

The speaker indeed becomes left or right (or center or surround left or right) depending on which terminals you hook it up to. You can use other speakers with the receiver, although very low impedance speakers at higher volumes could be a challenge to the receiver. Mains are more important to match across the front timbre wise, surrounds not so much altho with listening to multi-ch music you may want matches all around, for movies/tv doesn't matter as much.

ADS (and I may be just remembering ADS Braun) made some nice speakers, altho not familiar with your model specifically, search around for info/reviews...not sure which Yamaha speakers you had but the chances are these ADS are a bit nicer than the typical HTIB speaker set....