Best reciever ($100 on ebay)

[solidcrowd 10+ year member]

I'm new to home audio and I need a link to the best 5.1 reciever on ebay I can buy for 100 bucks or under (buy it now). Want to buy it tonight and get this project started. O and it needs to have something like the ".1" "Subwoofer" or "LFE" Out?? so i can plug my sub amp into it I assume. Thankz

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[joetama 5,000+ posts]

I take it that your dad's doesn't have a subwoofer out?

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

YGPM...

Also, You don't have to have a subwoofer out on a receiver to get sub audio to a plate amplifier... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

YGPM...

Also, You don't have to have a subwoofer out on a receiver to get sub audio to a plate amplifier... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

How would you go about getting the signal to a plate amplifier without a "sub out" from the receiver? Sorry, I'm a noob when it comes to this.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

A lot of plate amplifiers have "Speaker Level" inputs. You hook your loudspeakers up to the receiver as normal. But you also run another cable to the plate amplifier from the speaker terminals on the receiver.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

A lot of plate amplifiers have "Speaker Level" inputs. You hook your loudspeakers up to the receiver as normal. But you also run another cable to the plate amplifier from the speaker terminals on the receiver.

ah gotcha, thanks!

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

It's what I do... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

It's what I do... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

One more question... because that signal from the amp is unfiltered (full range) you then filter it with the "Freq" knob on the plate amp, right?

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

That is correct. The plate amplifier turns the Speaker level "high" voltage signal into "low" voltage signal, either with a transformer or a stepdown circuit, then it processes the signal just like it would normally.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

That is correct. The plate amplifier turns the Speaker level "high" voltage signal into "low" voltage signal, either with a transformer or a stepdown circuit, then it processes the signal just like it would normally.

Okay, let me see if I have this straight. Assuming the MS Paint sketch (crappy, yes) is correct then you would adjust the "Freq" knob to the desired filter setting??

And this is the solution to adding a plate amplifier (sub) to a stereo (receiver) that doesn't have a dedicated "sub out"... correct?

Sorry for the questions, but I'm just trying to learn. I really want to do a stereo for my room that feeds off my computer (itunes), and I have been following a lot of the recent DIY computer speaker threads, but I think I am going to use a cheap HT receiver... probably something like this, - I know it's low quality stuff, but I think it should be sufficient for my needs.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Yep you have it correct there....

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

Great, thanks!