Can I use my two infinity tower speakers with a digital home theater receiver? Would I still need a subwoofer?

Say, for example, I buy a receiver that drives two front speakers, a subwoofer and 3 satellites. Would the hookup for the front specakers (the infinitys) recognize the woofers, or just the tweeters and midrange? Asked by newbie1769956 60 months ago Similar Questions: infinity tower speakers digital home theater receiver subwoofer Recent Questions About: infinity tower speakers digital home theater receiver subwoofer Consumer Electronics.

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Nearly all receivers would work The receiver doesn't have to recognize your towers' woofers. There is only one set of wires going into the speakers. The speakers have a piece of electronics called a crossover that takes the incoming signal apart and sends the proper frequencies to the tweeters, mids and woofers.

So the receiver just needs to send it a full range signal, which nearly all receivers do. A few receivers can send out bass-less signals to your front, side and rear speakers if you want it to. The reason would be to avoid sending bass signals to speakers that can't handle it, which can sometimes distort the sound or even damage the speakers.

But yours can, apparently, so you don't have to worry. In fact, if you just want to use the two speakers, you could operate the receiver in stereo mode. That way everything is sent to the two speakers you are using, and nothing gets sent to any sides, rears or subs.

Some receivers can even simulate a surround-sound effect from just two speakers. It isn't as good as with a real surround-sound setup, but that is no surprise. Incidentally, the word "satellite" speakers is generally used in reference to "subwoofer-satellite" or "sub-sat" systems.

They only have left and right speakers for mids and highs, and a subwoofer for lows. That term isn't really used in a home theater context. There every non-subwoofer speaker is referred to by its location (fronts, center, sides, rears, sometimes rear center.

) Infinity makes pretty good stuff nowadays. It is even a bargain, relatively speaking.

You can use them, but you still want a subwoofer It's impossible to say what the settings would be without knowing the brand of the receiver, but with all of them you can tell the receiver if your front speakers are full-range (usually called "Large") or limited in bass (usually called "Small). With many receivers you can also tell it to send the low-frequence effects channel (the ".1" channel) to the subwoofer, speakers, or both. Unless your Infinity speakers have really big, self-powered subwoofers, you will get better effect with a separate powered subwoofer.

They generally have better low-frequency extension than pasive woofers in most tower speakers, and because the receiver will not need to drive power-sapping low frequency booms, you will get better treble and midrange as well. Sources: Personal experience .

Your receiver will sure have a setting... If you set the receiver speaker output setting to "Stereo", it will for sure recognize the woofers in your tower speakers. I am being brief here but I think I make the point.

I've hooked up my towers to a Digital Home Theater DVD Receiver and have had no problems. I got the receiver very cheap and just tried it out to see if it would work and it was fine for my tastes. I have above average hearing perception and work in the field of acoustics.

I can't remember which outputs I hooked my speaker up to but it was probably the midrange. I have no issues with performance. The only issue you might have is that there might not be enough power to drive your speakers properly.

I guess if you think you are not getting enough low (bass) or high (treble) frequency response you could add other speakers, but I know from the field of pyschoacoutics that many people cannot tell the difference. In jury evaluations for high and low end audio systems, less than 5% of people can actually tell the difference between them in blind evaluations. Sources: Experience with Audio Acoutics .

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