You Don't Need a Receiver to Have a Surround Sound System!
You Don't Need a Receiver to Have a Surround Sound System!
In this modern era, audio/video receivers are becoming less and less common because soundbars have taken over the industry! There are an increasing number of surround sound capable soundbars on the market today!
Soundbars and other products mentioned in this video are below.
Sonos Products:
Sonos Playbar: https://geni.us/9eyW0
Sonos Beam: https://geni.us/CrwK
Sonos Playbase: https://geni.us/bBYnc
Sonos Play:1: https://geni.us/hBRpGk
Sonos Play:5: https://geni.us/eWsAD
Sonos One: https://geni.us/SDZr0sc
Nakamichi Shockwafe Pro 7.1.4ch: https://geni.us/mVCE9Kl
Bose Products:
Bose SoundTouch 300: https://geni.us/EQyu1
Bose Soundbar 700: https://geni.us/CObo
Bose Soundbar 500: https://geni.us/mP0lCEB
Bose Surround Speakers: https://geni.us/k8FcXG
Bose Surround Speakers 700: https://geni.us/d3CKx
A/V receivers offer the ability to design and implement a custom surround sound setup. Running cables from the receiver to the different speakers can be extremely difficult for some people. Soundbars with surround speakers are an excellent solution for people wanting an easier setup!
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This is trash wtf the is no "traditional"surround system there is just surround system or not
You do not need an AV receiver or AV pre-sound processor or anything else that often is both superfluous, undersized and expensive in order to get a DTS / AC-3 decoder with 5.1 or 7.1 audio out via DAC to discrete analog outputs. There are plenty of products that even have HDMI and HDCP v2 and higher with ARC and CEC support etc on the market that have that function and support for much less price even counting the amplifiers that can drive the speakers.
What I want is an av sender/ receiver capable of UHD and 5.1 sound..
Just realised most we watch is streaming so want to send signal to cinema room.
Are there decent options for ceiling speakers with an audio jack only, trying to spruce up my bunk room
At work without breaking the bank. Thanks.
I’ve got a very big open room, I’ve got my towers and my center channels, I want to add bookshelves and Atmos speakers but there’s gonna be loose wiring everywhere to get it connected to my avr.
Thanks!
Hare Krishna
Sir I like to listen heart touching music, sound separation,surround sound, and music with low pass frequency,which AVR receiver would you suggest me
For surround sound you need some device that splits the signal to multiple channels. A sound bar splits to the signal to the drive units it has and possibly to bass and rear speakers.
To balance the sound between left and right, front and back a receiver has the most features for easy adjustment. You can have a HDMI debedder that takes the audio out to 8 channels and passes through the signal to a television, projector or display monitor. If the source is a computer then the computer treats the debedder as a sound card and you have some control over the arrangement. Passive speakers and active analogue speakers do not have a lip sync latency issue. Anything digital and particularly wireless introduces delay or compression or both. Not all systems give you the control and set up features to make the adjustments. Usually the audio is delayed but can sometimes precede the action.
NOTHING and I mean NOTHING can replace a physical speaker being present. Dont let Dolby or another corporation that sells soundbars fool you. Sounds r super pricy today to
Can you get wireless speakers,full surround sound that work with the Onkyo TX-RX50 AV receiver?All five speakers. And get it to work? I’m not in tech genius so I’ll take any advice I can get.lol.
May as well just write up a couple paragraphs. If you aren’t going to show products, connections, diagrams or anything else, it’s just a talking head. Meh. Do better.
One thing people don’t ever think about and that is creating an acoustically neutral room, or any kind of sound proofing to make the room your stereo is in work better with your stereo. There are crazy expensive "foam" products out there and I’m not sure if they deliver for the price. However, having a room with double walls where there is a 2 – 6 inch open air gap between them I do know works great at making a room shine acoustically. And allows you to crank it up without annoying the whole neighborhood. The most bohemian and cheap way to help a room out is hanging moving blankets from the ceilings along the outer edge of the walls, again leaving that so important gap of air space and making sure the blankets extend to the floor. And by the way, can you ever have too many speakers, really? 🙂
Surround sound without receiver but now i need a soundbar… how about change the title to "using a soundbar as a surround sound reciever" 🤦♂️
Focus on improving reproduction of sound by speaker by processing properly than converting analog than amplifying. Makes more emotional response than adding bad sound from different locations
I would like to add, that from my experience to have enjoyed better fidelity out of passive than active speakers. Sure a powered sub for your car is one thing. But at home, I just think passive speakers, including subs sound more musical than powered ones. That’s the beauty of 5.1 surround systems. From quality companies the A/V receivers and speakers should match excellent together, better than any other brand regardless of price. I have a number of quality receivers, and tested them all with my speakers, but nothing sounded better than the receiver that came with the surround system (JBL). That really surprised me. But I imagine that will largely depend on the stereo company you prefer. Building a set of speakers, or speaker kits I have heard are a great way to really increase the quality of your stereo while not mortgaging the house. Which kits, that I cannot say regretfully. But when it comes to cabinets, finding a quality pair of speakers with nice cabinets but "blown" drivers I think is the way to go. You just replace the drivers, that way the speaker cabinet is already built. Used cabinets with bad speakers in them go real cheap too. You will need to watch and find new drivers that match the crossover unless you wish to replace them as well. And that is something I am having a hard time to understand – the high cost of speaker crossovers with low end Chinese parts. Parts Express anybody? Peace.
Dude, you are the man!! Thanks for your video and explaining sound bars! I really did not understand the concept and wanted to add wireless speakers. Now, I know just how to do that!! By the way, I have subscribed to your channel right now!! Thanks, man!!
I have a soundbar already, but I want true surround sound, is there any device which can take my TV’s hdmi arc as input, and have separate Outputs for my soundbar and it’s sub and additional speakers?
"The wireless surround speakers connect throught a wire to the sub ", which then connects wiressly to the sound bar.
(even the really wireless surround speakers still need to be connected with a "wire" to the power plug.)
I think that in many cases it is still less trouble to route an audio wire to a traditional "wired speaker than figuring out how to place a power outlet next to where the surround speaker is supposed to be placed.
Or you could just buy a new phone with Dolby Atmos built-in. 😜
Time waste on blabbering
It’s like asking do i need ear to hear sound
Wireless still sucks to set up especially Bose from my experience. They sound great but setup was a huge pain. Hopefully it gets produced better in the future.
hey man. I have a hometheater philips hts6600/55 and the receiver has a problem. Any ideas on how I can reuse these speakers?
I only want to take it to listen to music, I don’t want to take it to watch movies or watch videos
Soundbars are glorified center channels. To believe they can provide surround sound is silly.
I have a 4.1 amp and it’s great differnt then a reciver
This man gives great information while maintaining good composure. Shirt is crooked but everything else is precise. No-cut recordings aren’t easy. Professional grade. 👍
bruh lol sound bar
Thanks for the videos, is it possible to improve on audio sound? It’s maxed up and I can hardly hear you when I drive
And recovers add unacceptable audio lag.
You can’t play video games with a receiver :/
For the perfect surround sound, no sound bar will beat an av receiver, your comment, you don’t need an av receiver any more, is wrong information. After 4 years, I would hope you have learn’t a lot more about home theatre.
I have a great system with a Yamaha RX A660 Receiver and Klipsch RF-52 ll speakers, but since we downsized to an apartment, it’s no longer practical nor do I have enough room for two front speakers, a center speakers and two rear surround speakers.
I am now finding that nobody wants to buy these type of systems any longer, and I’m having a hell of a time getting rid of them even though they are in excellent condition and of great quality.
Soon soundbars will be outdated also.
Thank you for not sounding like a cartoon or having wacky edits
Dude you suck at explaining this stuff…
So I got a yamaha rx-v365 with 2 towers hookup aalong with 2 front and 2 rear an! Center Yamaha speakers that come in the kit then a 200 watt emmersion sorround sound dvd player hooked up to 2 more towers and a 8" sub plug in to the front speakers and sub outputs then a denon avr 484 hooknup with 2 bookshelf speakers and a center tower with 2 Denon satellite speakers. So got phone plug into the Yamaha then got that running to the dvd player input then habe the out put of the dvd player hooked up to the denon avr. Trying to find what volume o should run all these systems together or got where literally can take 2 audio plugs intonphone to 2 at se time but wanna know if should volume on phone be all up then dvd player all up and denon at and then just turn yamaha up till its sounds good but then feel like some spesakes arent run runing at some points while playing with all 3 volumes to get it tunned just right if anyone still b with me and help me open ears here
You don’t need a receiver there are hacky ways around replacing a receiver, the receiver’s just more convenient, there was work-arounds back then too.
Also a sound bar can’t replace even a hacky work-around honestly…
If you want true separation there is absolutely no way around it you need a home theater receiver or some sort of audio decoder that properly reads the audio output from the designed source and outputs it to the proper channels. If you have a Home theater receiver that is 5.1 and you want an Amp to boost the sound ( watts per channel ), you simply just can’t buy a two channel Amp, because you’ll only get stereo, you’ll need a 4 channel Amp and use LFO/LFE ( low frequency out put or better terms The sub woofer) threw the Pre Amp. If you want proper separation you’ll never obtain it by jerry rigging a system.
9.4.2 is still stereo if all speakers are infront of you I rather have a simple stereo setup than a "dolby atmos" soundbar
Great video
I’ve had my fair share of audio setups, from surround sound packages to budget AVRs right up to my current system, which is an audiophile grade 5.2.4 setup but if I could go back and start again, I would’ve invested in a good 2.2 system, if you got good speakers and their are positioned correctly, the imaging would be good enough!
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If u like good sound wireless sucks. If u just want better than tv speaker sound that the wife aproves of wireless is acceptable. A proper setup. Wired 2.2 channel audio system is where its at guys. You wont miss all the extra channels. Had 7.2 setup. Its not worth it. Good quality2 channel is still very relevant.
Speaker placement of 2 channel is fairly straitforward in any room. Match. The reason for two subs is you get more even in room response(two subs is definitely worth it over one sub)
Sorry but After using sound bars for so many years I can confidently say once I bought a 5.2.2/7.2 receiver I can confidently say running a 5.1.2 setup blows any soundbar I’ve had out the water and any soundbar with DTS-x or even a 4.1 sound bar with rear “wireless speakers just doesn’t sound any were close to to my 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos surround sound, once I fired up a movie with a good Atmos mix in it I was blown away with the clarity of the sound and getting goose bumps especially when it a jet flies over from back to front and the transition to each speaker was amazing and I couldn’t even tell the audio was being reproduced by speakers it felt like i was there in the movie which is something I’ve never gotten from a sounds bar, the only time I see a sound bar as an actual Choice is for an area where you don’t need surround sound so like a living room or a teenagers room for gaming but saying you don’t need a receiver to have a surround sound system is completely disingenuous and misleading for the simple fact that a soundbar has a receiver built in not to mentioned in the case of “wireless rear speakers” you need a receiver to catch the signal being sent out by the main unit and the issue with that is it’s able to have to interference causing issues with the audio cutting out and it’s another part to fail same with sound bar subwoofers which are wireless and the less wireless, I’m sorry to say but sound bars while they’re useful they’re not replacing a full setup with proper receiver that can handle proper Dolby Atmos and not needing upward during speakers and using the ceiling as an acoustic mirror and you hoping you get the desired effect which can be hit or miss, i would advise changing the title!
If the soundbars were so good as you say, the cinema teathers would use soundbars instead of the powerful receivers they are using now….
Without a subwoofer, a sound bar is a joke.
It’s so sad that people are attacking this man, simply for suggesting a simpler way to get surround sound without having to go into debt. Not everyone has the space for an AV receiver or bookshelf speakers, and a soundbar isn’t going to rape your wallet. Why is that so hard for AV elitists to understand?
I just want to use the output from a pocket speaker to power my surround – I cut the stock speaker and replaced with my wired speakers the bluetooth quits within minuts even though it is plugged into the power outlet, Whats the deal all im doing is sending a signal im not using it as an amplifier, I fried two capacitors, Or are these pocket bluetooth speakers only good for one speaker- whats goin on with these things are they not designed for multiple speakers as im not using it for amplifying the sound i simply added more speakers so there shouldnt be an issue
I learned something. Thought it was implying that I could just have a pile of speakers and no receiver and Macgyver something to the tv. My misunderstanding.
sorry… how to play 5.1 music via usb… dsd and pcm
Very interesting; sound bar; WOW! May just get one. The video; cool.