Folks,

I am under a tight budget. I have an old Yamaha-HTR5460. Would this be ok and work reasonable well with EPIC 60s? This is for a 5.1 setup.

For a quicklook at the HTR5460 specs, I have included the link below.

http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/compare/receiver_6.htm

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks

It doesn't have the latest features, but I don't see why not. You gotcher Dolby Digital, your DTS, so you're covered on the DVD front. Looks like it was a reasonably high quality reciever for its time (probably what, like 2 years ago? ), it's got plenty of power.

I think the main questions would be these:
1. Does it work?
2. Does it have amps and speaker outputs?
3. Does it provide more than, oh, say, 20 WPC of continous power?

So I'd say you're covered.

Thanks for quick reply. I feel a little better now :-) I have been using it for over 2 years now and so far no issues. The only concern I had was this receiver is rated at 110w although yamaha's ratings are always bloated (thats what I hear from several forums). Will this receiver has enough power to drive the Epic 60s was my only concern. Will I significantly lose anything thats important to drive the Epic 60s.

Thanks

sxu
I'm sure that it has plenty of power to drive the 60s. No worrys.

I have the 5640 which is newer with 6.1 processing, but with less power (80wpc). I have the same concern about its entry-levelness mismatching my M60s. Have been entertaining the idea of auditioning a $600 receiver (Denon/HK/NAD) to see how much improvement, if any I would get.

Lots of newer receivers are loaded with features I don't want (lots of inputs/outputs), so spending more often does not make sense. I only have a dvd player and a tv, so I don't want arrays of audio/video inputs and outputs on my receiver's backpanel.

NAD seems to have a philosophy that values sound quality over features.

Just rambling ...

Remember that 60s will require *less* power to drive than smaller speakers, not more. The only catch with big speakers is that we tend to put them in big rooms and ask them to play really loudly, that's when the extra power comes in.

I think we're assuming that you're looking for something less than ear-bleeding volumes, is that a safe assumption ?

Just to give an idea, my HT room size 22'L x 16W'. Definitely not ear bleeding levels.

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yamaha's ratings are always bloated

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I don't think Yamaha's ratings are bloated. Rather they merely adhere to the FTC spec which doesn't require all channels of a 5-chan amp to output 100% simultaneously. Yamaha doesn't claim to do this.

Some other manufacturers CAN do all channels driven simultaneously drive at 100%. If you think that's important, then buy those.

How important is it? In your situation your powered subwoofer off loads most of the power requirement. By far most amp power is required for bass.

Freed from this, 0.1 watts per channel will be loud (on efficient Axiom speakers), and 1 watt per channel will be very loud.

Of that small amount, most wattage goes to the front channels, not the surrounds. HT or music multi-channel mixes typically don't put much sustained output on the surrounds. The real world likelihood of any material demanding 100% simultaneously on all channels is low.

Even if you de-rate your amps power by 50%, it's still way sufficient. From a power standpoint, you are fine.

But if anyone wants to buy HK, Denon, or other amps capable of rated power when all channels fully driven, that's fine, too. It's comforting to know you've got the power on all channels simultaneously.