Do you need Separates for your Surround System? And really, what does that even mean?
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If you're looking at a Surround Sound System, there's a good chance you'll read or hear about using Separates.
Most of us are familiar with Surround Sound Receivers. A typical Surround Sound Receiver, has two main jobs to do. It process the signal it's getting from the Blu-ray player, or Apple TV, and it amplifies (or powers) the speakers.
With separates, we break those two jobs out into separate components, so that each piece of hardware can focus exclusively on the thing it does best.
So you have a dedicated Processor, often called a Pre Processor or Prepro to manage the signal coming in from the Video Source.
Then you have dedicated Amplifiers to power the speakers. There's different configurations for amplifying your speakers, but a common one we see a lot is to use a dedicated Amplifier for the 3 front channels, and a second Amplifier for all the surrounds and atoms speakers in the room.
You could separate it out even further, but that's a very common setup.
One of the main advantages here, is that you give the speakers the kind of power they need to perform at their highest level.
Without geeking out, under powering your speakers is a bit like running a race on one leg. It works, but not as efficiently as running on two legs.
Now this is an oversimplification, there's a lot more to separates, and amplifiers than we're covering here, but hopefully that gives you the general idea.
So now the question is whether or not you actually need Separates for your surround. As a general rule, all surround systems will benefit from separates. That being said, if you're budget for the surround system is $5,000-10,000 I'd probably focus on getting the best speakers you can, and then using a high quality surround receiver.
If you have a larger budget for your surround approaching $15,000-20,000 then I might start looking at separates. Again, there's no fine science here. Every application is always different.
And you can always add separates later. So start with your speakers, and then as you're able break out your Receiver into separate amplification.
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2 окт 2024