Hey guys, So my husband doesn't understand my love of sound. He's had the same stereo receiver since 1993 and will listen to any spare pair of headphones I've given him from my reject drawer. So up until now I've kept my speaker habits to headphones only. But an opportunity presented itself recently when the speakers on our home stereo died, and I'm just a little overwhelmed trying to parse the whole Ohms/Watts/Volts business of speakers and receivers.
I've got $500 to work with for the speakers and an existing Sony STR-D159 Stereo Receiver (circa 1993) to hook them up to. I just want a decent pair of bookshelf speakers, no sub, no home theater system. I've been looking at a bargain on the Klipsch RP-600M or ELAC Uni-fi UB5 or DALI Zensor 1. I just want to make sure I don't go and buy the speakers and they are either over or underpowered for the receiver.
What I've found for receiver specs from the internet is:
power output: 25 watts per channel into 6-ohms (stereo)
Frequency response: 40Hz to 20 kHz
Total harmonic distortion: 0.5%
Input sensitivity: 3mV (MM), 300mV (line)
Speaker load impedance: 6-ohms to 16-ohms
And if I understood those numbers better, than I wouldn't be here. LOL
Am I over thinking this whole thing and any of these speakers would work with this receiver?
Hey guys, So my husband doesn't understand my love of sound. He's had the same stereo receiver since 1993 and will listen to any spare pair of headphones I've given him from my reject drawer. So up until now I've kept my speaker habits to headphones only. But an opportunity presented itself recently when the speakers on our home stereo died, and I'm just a little overwhelmed trying to parse the whole Ohms/Watts/Volts business of speakers and receivers.
I've got $500 to work with for the speakers and an existing Sony STR-D159 Stereo Receiver (circa 1993) to hook them up to. I just want a decent pair of bookshelf speakers, no sub, no home theater system. I've been looking at a bargain on the Klipsch RP-600M or ELAC Uni-fi UB5 or DALI Zensor 1. I just want to make sure I don't go and buy the speakers and they are either over or underpowered for the receiver.
What I've found for receiver specs from the internet is:
power output: 25 watts per channel into 6-ohms (stereo)
Frequency response: 40Hz to 20 kHz
Total harmonic distortion: 0.5%
Input sensitivity: 3mV (MM), 300mV (line)
Speaker load impedance: 6-ohms to 16-ohms
And if I understood those numbers better, than I wouldn't be here. LOL
Am I over thinking this whole thing and any of these speakers would work with this receiver?