Denon AVR1911 receiver need speakers

lalipule

Hi

I just bought Denon avr1911 receiver and I'm in a process to looking for a set of home theater package speakers.
And here are my questions:
- is it better to start from skratch and buy speakers separately, what would you recommend (nothing crazy in price)? is subwoofer required at all to complete the whole package for home theater 5.1?
- maybe buying a whole set of speakers, like Jamo S606 is not a bed idea?
- could someone please explain the receiver - spreakers impedance relation? my receiver is rated at 6-8ohm, should all the speakers be 6 or 8ohm, as well?

Thank you
Justyna

akaSol

lalipule wrote: »

Hi

I just bought Denon avr1911 receiver and I'm in a process to looking for a set of home theater package speakers.
And here are my questions:
- is it better to start from skratch and buy speakers separately, what would you recommend (nothing crazy in price)? is subwoofer required at all to complete the whole package for home theater 5.1?
- maybe buying a whole set of speakers, like Jamo S606 is not a bed idea?
- could someone please explain the receiver - spreakers impedance relation? my receiver is rated at 6-8ohm, should all the speakers be 6 or 8ohm, as well?

Thank you
Justyna

There is not to much difference between 6 and 8 ohm speakers. Manically 6ohm give a greater power output , however your THD does increase very slightly Just make sure they are all the one kind because it can lead to problems.
The 606's are just on the edge of what your amp is classified to use ( 125w @ 6 Ohm) , 130 @ 6 Ohm.
Depending on the size of your room the BOSTON ACOUSTICS XS 5.1 , or the TANNOY SFX 5.1 in satellite. Or the Q ACOUSTICS 2000 series / WHARFEDALE DIAMOND 10 HCP in book shelf format.
Lastly a Sub is not always required as some speakers are "punchy" enough, however I do enjoy my explosions....

Sol

lalipule

Hi Sol,


thank you for reply, just bought Jamo 210 sub and thats it for now. As soon as I have enough money I will start looking for speakers.

Just one more questions. You mentioned THD, what exactly is that?

Justyna

MarcinG

lalipule wrote: »

Hi Sol,

thank you for reply, just bought Jamo 210 sub and thats it for now. As soon as I have enough money I will start looking for speakers.

Just one more questions. You mentioned THD, what exactly is that?

Justyna

I just joined you thread (hope it is ok)

THD=Total Harmonic Distortion.


One thing i can say - do not buy cheap jamos (i got 426 including 210 sub) if u want to do anything more than movies (i got set 5.1 of jamo 426 in hn for around 500E last Christmas).

I'm also looking for speakers to use with 1911, but my case is slightly different:

I already have 5.1 jamo 426 pack and would like to play with it
so my plan is:
426 surrounds> effects (6th and 7th speaker)
front 426>surround
and now I’m looking for something to use at front.
My criteria:
1 suitable for stereo (rather quick and loud electronic type music) - 426 are hmm "plastic" and "shallow" ? - they are ok for ps3 games/movies but nothing else. My current living room is open to the hall way and has dimensions of 5x3+1,5x7m (living room + hall way)
2 floor standing ones - if bass reflex ones i would preffer it at front or bottom (as they would be placed in a corners at the moment)
3 budget to be adjusted accordingly (it can wait few moths) in reasonable range of few (few not 15) hundred euro if possible.
4 they may be second hand.


Btw:
is your remote behaving funny (I'm not quite sure how it works - sometimes i can not even switch receiver on led on remote blinks but receiver doesn't respond)

btw2 quite often i can hear like "siziling"/"rustling" noise coming from my surround speakers (like they are overloaded? but it happens even at very low volume) any ideas?

akaSol

MarcinG wrote: »

I just joined you thread (hope it is ok)

THD=Total Harmonic Distortion.


One thing i can say - do not buy cheap jamos (i got 426 including 210 sub) if u want to do anything more than movies (i got set 5.1 of jamo 426 in hn for around 500E last Christmas).

I'm also looking for speakers to use with 1911, but my case is slightly different:

I already have 5.1 jamo 426 pack and would like to play with it
so my plan is:
426 surrounds> effects (6th and 7th speaker)
front 426>surround
and now I’m looking for something to use at front.
My criteria:
1 suitable for stereo (rather quick and loud electronic type music) - 426 are hmm "plastic" and "shallow" ? - they are ok for ps3 games/movies but nothing else. My current living room is open to the hall way and has dimensions of 5x3+1,5x7m (living room + hall way)
2 floor standing ones - if bass reflex ones i would preffer it at front or bottom (as they would be placed in a corners at the moment)
3 budget to be adjusted accordingly (it can wait few moths) in reasonable range of few (few not 15) hundred euro if possible.
4 they may be second hand.


Btw:
is your remote behaving funny (I'm not quite sure how it works - sometimes i can not even switch receiver on led on remote blinks but receiver doesn't respond)

btw2 quite often i can hear like "siziling"/"rustling" noise coming from my surround speakers (like they are overloaded? but it happens even at very low volume) any ideas?

It's to with the current / speaker / speaker wire , the afore mentioned : THD or if the speaker wire is to close to electrical wire :eek:
Whats concerning is that you might have a issue with power inside your amp, esp. if you have issues with it coming out of standby.

As for speakers ?

There are cheap warfdales available ( Vardus VR's) , under GPB £200, having not heard them cant make comments. But their bigger brothers are ok (dimond 10.4) , and will do in a pinch.

Sol
(Am a KEF man btw )

dharn

did you buy the denon from a dealer or secondhand or online, if from a dealer he should be able to advise you on speakers for your denon ,which by the way is a very good amp and should be hooked up to a good set of speakers something like kef ,b&w or probably as you have already bought a jamo sub ( why buy sub first ??) you could have bought 2 speakers, gone in to your setup menu and used it in stereo only with the 2 speakers until you could afford 2 more, then sub, then center ,you cant use it with sub only

lalipule

I bought Denon from a dealer, they were mentioning some floorstanding speakers but the problem is , I don't like the way they look. I know that sound is the primary factor but this is going to be part of the room decoration and needs to be presentable. Anyway I have the sub as I use some old speakers from LG home theather and needed active sub, hence Jamo 210.
Now after a while I decied to start buying speakers to make HT and found JBL ES80. So now I'm thinking about pairing denon with jamo and JBL. Would any of you know if this combination will work? I'm going to be mainly watching movies, less listening to the music.

Thanks

dharn

looked up your jbls saw clip on youtube they look very good, you could have a very good system with 4- 5 of those and your jamo sub just try them and experiment with cutoff frequency on the sub

lalipule

thanks dharn for the info, will defenetly do it, as soon as I buy them

MarcinG

dharn wrote: »

looked up your jbls saw clip on youtube they look very good, you could have a very good system with 4- 5 of those and your jamo sub just try them and experiment with cutoff frequency on the sub

r u recomending speakers which you only seen on youtube

akaSol

MarcinG wrote: »

r u recomending speakers which you only seen on youtube

in recommended , JBL are found mostly in cinema eg cine world in Dublin CC

If you really want a cheep alternate they are it. However this is the go to speaker if you want more boom than detail.

Jamo , Mordant Short, Kef, in level of quality in my listening habits and personal preference

Sol

dharn

MarcinG wrote: »

r u recomending speakers which you only seen on youtube

the op had mentioned jbls so i googled them and found a youtube clip so then i knew what they looked like ,saw that they were large floorstanders thats what my answer was based on ,have you any suggestions for the op