AV Receiver: The Heart Of The Home Theater

What Is It?

What AV receiver, the heart of the home theater, is?

This device receives audio-video information from all your sources and outputs it to your TV and speakers. It is a kind of hub that not only receive video and audio streams, for example, from a Blu-ray player, but also decode them, create surround sound from a conventional stereo source, or upscales a regular DVD to FullHD. And, what is more, the AV receiver can sound not only one room, which is the main one, but also give out an additional signal to another zone — for example, to the kitchen or the bedroom.

The Internet is for your benefit

Modern receivers have extensive network features, allowing you to connect to Internet radio stations, play music files from a local network, and much more.

Real cinema at home

And, of course, it is the AV receiver that makes your speakers sound, creating the atmosphere of a real home theater in an ordinary room, which (with the help of PULT.ru specialists), in many cases, can outshine the sound of an ordinary city movie theater.

How To Choose?

Sound or functionality?

If sound quality comes first for you, pay attention to models of the mid-and high price-brackets with a minimal set of features — as a rule, manufacturers have invested most of their funds in amplification, sacrificing some not the most important functions (for example, network). But with this receiver, both movies and music will have THE REAL SOUND! The more powerful the device, the better — a common belief that a speaker can be burned by over-powering, of course, works, but it is low-power devices that burn the sound systems to a greater extent, which, when trying to give out more power, go into "clipping", leading to high distortion and damaged speakers.

4К — is it a real thing?

Most of today's devices support ultra-high 4K resolution, but this is no reason not to look at products where this feature is not included. There is no content of such quality available for public access, and not everyone has a TV supporting this resolution.

The number of sources is an important parameter!

Decide what devices you will connect to the AV receiver — it can be video game consoles, media players, DVD/Blu-ray players, and other sources. Today, most modern devices that you can buy on PULT.ru have an HDMI interface — so, focus on the number of inputs of this particular standard.

Digital or analog?

In the middle and budget segments, analog amplification is preferable — it provides a higher level of sound compared to digital, which is easier to implement but more difficult to achieve quality. In the high-end segment, digital amplification can match, or even surpass, the quality of traditional analog amplification. The best thing is to listen to the devices you picked in the PULT.ru showroom and choose the most suitable one.

Multi-room and All, All, All

If you want to also sound the second zone and fit the receiver into the Smart Home system — pay attention to the Multi-Zone support and compatibility with various control systems.

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