Reciever for Music and Home Theater Setup?

[treukauf]

First of all I did do some searching before posting, but I would still like some advice on a reciever. I will use it for 50:50 Music and Home theater (5.1 Only). I really like my Technik Large dorm style speakers for my front left and right ( Built in 10" subs, I prefer having bass come from my front speakers as well as the surround sub)... Our old pioneer either lacked the power to drive them or the crossover frequency setup was not letting the lower freq. make it to them. I just bought my parents a Denon AVR 1610. It works well for surround ht but again no bass from my parents "big" front speakers. I set the options for "large" front speakers, and even maxxed out the bass settings to no avail.

I would like some advice on a new or used reciever that can actually be tuned to put some bass and power to my large front speakers, as well as make a decent home theater receiver. The rear speakers will be larger as well to help with my addiction to loud powerful music.haha. Besides looking at the wattage is there any way to tell what recievers are designed to run larger front speakers rather than the little surround speakers?

Thanks for any help.

My budget is around 300 for the reciever. I know its low but I'm hoping to find a good used deal.

 

[m_vanmeter]

your budget will not get you very far with new equipment, so you might start looking at some used receivers. Onkyo, Yamaha, Sony ES, Pioneer Elite - look for 5 year old (or older....My 12 year old Sony DB-930 is still a monster with extremely clean output for music and DD 5.1). Look for 100 watts per channel or better with THD ratings of 0.08% or lower. Conservatively rated amplifier sections in the older equipment were the secret to their sound quality and long life.

 

[sholling]

It sounds to me like what you should be looking for is a bigger subwoofer or two to add tons of bump and thump and not a receiver to push your speakers into doing what they were not designed to do. Set the crossover at 80hz and let the sub do it's job.

 

[treukauf]

The loudspeakers I have are rated for 200 watts... I don't need to go crazy but I want to make sure I can adjust the crossover so the low freq actually make it there..

I am looking at the onkyo 604;605, and 606...because I heard they have individual equalizers and crossovers for each speaker... Is this true for all of those models ? Any other suggestions..I'm ebaying right now

Thanks

 

[PearlcorderS701]

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[Panther427]

I'm not sure about the denon 1610 but on my 2310 if you have your front set to large you can not change the crossover... However if you set them to small fronts you can change the crossover i did that with mine just yesterday and it made a significant difference in the bass coming from the Front speakers.
Even just a bump from the factory 40hz to 60hz or 80hz.. I tried both but went with the 60hz. I didn't notice that much difference between the two at the sound level i was listen too. i did try a higher Hz of like 110 or 120 and with my speakers it did degrade the mids and tweeter at least to my ears.

I didn't noticed much when adjusting the LFE to LFE+fronts. SO thats when i stumbled upon this. Im still new to all this myself but thought id share what little i know.

If this is a bad idea please someone speak up.

 

[Panther427]

also in stereo direct mode if you set the LFE to LFE+main's you can then adjust your crossover with large speakers.