Home Theater Basics - AV Receiver Setup

what's up YouTube alright here we are here's another week at the home theater hobbyist and we're doing another basic series and this week we're doing our basics on the AV receiver or the audio rear D receiver all right let's get into it okay so this is your AV receiver and this is the hub of your basically your home entertainment system because what it does is it transfers and processes the video and audio from one of your source components like your blu-ray player a cable box your game controller or your game system and it passes the audio on to the speaker's specifically if you have separate speakers like a 5.1 or 7.1 7.2 7.4 system and if you don't know what those terms mean please go to our home theater basics audio video and we actually explain that and it passes those through passes the video signal on through your television and all of a sudden you have a surround sound system so that's what it does it literally transfers all your audio audio audio and video where it needs to go and it does throw the so using the different surround sound modes and different things like that so it should at least a code DTS HD Master Audio Dolby true HD and I'll if you want you can also get the ones that do Dolby Atmos DTS X auro-3d for adding the height channels that we talked about the audio video so this is the home theater receiver we're gonna move on and we're gonna start talking about what what you see in the front what you see in the rear and try to help you feel a little bit more comfortable with hooking these things up so let's get to that okay so let's talk about the receiver parts and this is a Yamaha receiver but this is gonna be true for most of your receivers you're gonna have your main power button your volume button an input selector maybe a program menu here maybe an input for HDMI USB and video if you have an older receiver some of these and getting rid of some of the component video receivers and some other preset information am/fm radio and all those types of things but the one thing we really want to talk about here also there's a headphone jack if you actually want to do what Yamaha calls silent cinema so if you're in your house and you have small kids and you're watching at night you can put on headphones and listen that way the thing we want to talk about here is the wipeouts in input mic which is a mic and what this mic does and this is my mic from my receiver here what this mic does is you plug it in when you plug it in the receiver instantly switches to a channel and you're able to put this on a tripod - this little screw or just any normal I think 3/8 inch tripod and you put it in your main listening position and what that does is it figures out the distance between where you sit and all of your speakers and it calibrates it and kind of tries to put the levels right and and also make sure that your speakers are connected correctly so that's very important a lot of people say oh I don't really use that but it's good to use it so that you're able to make sure that your speakers are at least plugged in correctly and so anytime I unplug them like I did here I'm gonna plug it back in and run that really quickly just to make sure everything is plugged in correctly okay so that's the the basics of the front of the receiver okay here we're looking at the rear of my receiver and most receivers are gonna have this I know not every receivers gonna have it but this is for my receiver we've got a 5 volt in or this is for USB got your network cable you've got your component video in you've got your other video sources in like your just regular RCA cables in and audio and then you've got those same audios out audio out and then you've got your AM FM antenna stuff it's a more component video out if you've got an older TV you wanna hook in to this particular receiver you've got some pre amp outs subwoofers and all your speaker connections you've got your front right left center surround left right and your surroundings and you also have an extra zone so a lot of seven channel receivers if you don't have seven channels they'll do an extra zone so you can hook it up and you can have a zone or something in a different room now the other thing we won't talk about here is HDMI out this goes to your television from the receiver some have it they have at least at least one but some have two so you can do maybe one from a television and then the other to a projector or to another room and we have five HDMI inputs now we recommend at least HDMI inputs because you can have a blu-ray player streaming player like an Apple TV something like that your PlayStation game console Xbox whatever maybe and a cable box and that takes up four inputs so we recommend five just so you have a little bit more versatility just case you get a Playstation and an x-box we're gonna hook everything up or five or more is what we recommend and also when you're looking at those HDMI inputs you want to make sure that you at least one or a few of them as many as possible support the newest formats HDMI 2.2 or excuse me HDMI 2.0 hdcp 2.2 4k pass-through UHD all of those things you want to make sure that you have everything that you need and your inputs that it supports it in your inputs and in your outputs that you're actually able to output those signals from your box so that is the rear of the system so now let's go through how you would hook things up just really quickly okay so here we are we're at the rear of the system and we're ready to set things up and this is where most people get a little bit nervous and the main reason is because I see all these these inputs and they don't know what to do with them but it's actually pretty pretty quick and pretty easy most of your speakers are pretty much also becoming in fact as far as I know they show you the red or excuse me the red and the black and then you just match black and red that's all you have to do and when you're doing that you want to use speaker wire and your speaker wire we would say use at least 16 gauge maybe even 12 gauge which is actually a little bit thicker speaker wire and also we would say get yourself a pair of banana plugs these things make it a lot easier to hook up a surround sound setup so on this wire I've already got the banana plug set up so all I have to do plug in black with black red with the red and on the other end of the cable same thing red with red black with back the good thing about a lot of cables is on one side of the cable though usually if you can really see it here they'll usually put like the name of the cable or who's made by on one side and I usually use that as my positive you can use or negative or you read or you're black and that's that becomes your your red in my case that's my red my positive and and you just hook it in and tighten it down and there you go it's all done and so from that point you've got power to your speakers and your AV receiver a hint of the power and then let's say you've got a source device like this on Amazon fire TV box HDMI that's one of the beautiful things about HDMI HDMI is so simple it's just one cable plug into the back of there and then let's say you wanted to put that on HDMI one and there you go and then if you had a television which we have our TV here and it doesn't actually have any HDMI inputs on it but it does have these old RCA type inputs so you could go yellow with yellow white with Y and red with red like that and then since this would be output AV out you would do the same thing over here and that's that so all of a sudden you'd be able to connect audio and video some people like to talk about power output and what that means and that's important that's very important they want to do things that reference level and what reference level is the sound that the studio engineers actually we're listening to when they master the content and for a lot of receivers that is known as zero DB on the extra receiver but personally I find that to be a little too loud so I don't know I don't I don't ever listen at reference level but but power output is very important when you want to listen at reference level because you want to make sure that your receiver is not distorting the sound because it can't handle that putting that amount of power to all your speakers and you also don't want it to be clipping or taking cutting out some of the sounds that you want you need to be hearing level so that's what power output is important but if you're not planning to do that then not planning to listen at that level then it's not as important most of your AV receiver so they can handle what most people would put at them at an 8 ohm load okay so now that you've actually seen how you hook things up and you've seen the front and the rear that's the big basics on your AV receiver and we thank you guys for watching please add things to the comments below we like reading your comments if you have comments on the preprocessor the amplifier please add 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Channel: Home Theater Hobbyist

Views: 908,928

Keywords: Home Theater, HT Basics, Reciever, Dolby Atmos, DTS X, Auro 3D, Dolby, DTS, AV Receiver, Receiver

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Length: 9min 37sec (577 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 14 2017