What is a Home Entertainment Receiver?
In decades past the stereo receiver was king. It was the center of the music system, commonly included an FM/AM tuner, and powered a turntable and cassette player, later replaced by a compact disk (CD) player. The typical stereo receiver had outputs for one set of stereo speakers, or in some cases two sets for a total of four speakers. The home entertainment receiver is the updated version of a stereo receiver with one basic difference: it is designed to reproduce movie soundtracks in surround sound, connecting to the television as well. While yesterday’s stereo receiver is made specifically for two-channel (stereo) music, a home entertainment receiver powers an entire set of surround sound speakers for duplicating encoded movie tracks. Sound tracks made with modern technologies place sounds within the acoustic environment to create an “envelope” around the listener. Surround sound speakers are placed strategically, connecting to specific outputs on the home entertainment receiver, to
In decades past the stereo receiver was king. It was the center of the music system, commonly included an FM/AM tuner, and powered a turntable and cassette player, later replaced by a compact disk (CD) player. The typical stereo receiver had outputs for one set of stereo speakers, or in some cases two sets for a total of four speakers. The home entertainment receiver is the updated version of a stereo receiver with one basic difference: it is designed to reproduce movie soundtracks in surround sound, connecting to the television as well. While yesterday’s stereo receiver is made specifically for two-channel (stereo) music, a home entertainment receiver powers an entire set of surround sound speakers for duplicating encoded movie tracks. Sound tracks made with modern technologies place sounds within the acoustic environment to create an “envelope†around the listener. Surround sound speakers are placed strategically, connecting to specific outputs on the home entertainment receiver
