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Amplifiers for Home Cinema Systems

When looking at buying a new amplifier for you home cinema system make sure you get the very best for the cheapest online price in the UK.

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Cheap Home Cinema Amplifiers

AV receivers or audio-video receivers are one of the many consumer electronics components typically found within a home theatre system. Their primary purpose is to amplify sound from a multitude of possible audio sources as well as route video signals to your TV from various sources. The user may program and configure a unit to take inputs from devices such as DVD players, VCRs etc. and easily select which source you want to route to your TV and have sound output for.

Decoders
AV receivers usually provide one or more decoders for sources with more than two channels of audio information. This is most common with movie soundtracks. Movie soundtracks have been provided via a number of encoded formats. The first common format was Dolby Pro Logic. This format contained a center channel and surround channel. These channels were mixed into the left and right channels using a process called matrixing. Receivers were produced with Dolby Pro Logic decoders which could separate out these two additional channels.

With the introduction of the DVD, the Dolby Digital format became a standard. Dolby Digital ready receivers included inputs and amplifiers for the additional channels. Most current AV receivers provide a Dolby Digital decoder and at least one digital S/PDIF input which can be connected to a source which provides a Dolby Digital output.

A less common format called DTS is present on some DVDs. Many newer AV receivers provide this decoder as well.

A number of other decoders may be provided by the AV receiver such as Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Pro Logic IIx, DTS Digital Surround, DTS-ES, and DTS Neo:6.

Stereo receivers have two channel of amplification, while AV receivers have at least 2 channels. The standard for AV receivers is five channels of amplification. These are usually referred to as 5.1 receivers. This provides for a left, right, center, left surround and right surround speaker to be powered by the receiver. 7.1 receivers provide for two additional surround channels, left rear surround, and right rear surround. The '.1' refers to the LFE (low frequency effects) channel the signal of which is usually sent to an amplified subwoofer unit. 5.1 and 7.1 receivers don't usually provide amplification for this channel. Instead, they provide a line level output.

Pioneer Home Cinema Amplifiers
Pioneer VSX-LX70 - LX Series Amplifier with DLNA Home Networking, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
VSX-AX4ASi-S - Multi-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI, i.LINK and Ready for iPod Photo
Pioneer VSX-LX60 - LX Series Amplifier with Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and HDMI-Control
VSX-AX2AS-S - Multi-Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI, Video Scaling and Ready for iPod Photo
Pioneer VSX-LX50 - 1080p Amplifier with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
VSX-1017AV-S - 7 Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching, MCACC, USB Host and Ready for iPod (Silver)
Pioneer VSX-1017AV-K - 7 Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching, MCACC, USB Host and Ready for iPod (Black)
VSX-917V-S - 7 Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching, Auto MCACC and USB Host (Silver)
Pioneer VSX-917V-K - 7 Channel A/V Receiver with HDMI Switching, Auto MCACC and USB Host (Black)
VSX-817-S - 7 Channel A/V Receiver with Auto MCACC and USB Host (Silver)
Pioneer VSX-817-K - 7 Channel A/V Receiver with Auto MCACC and USB Host (Black)
Pioneer VSX-417-S - 5 Channel A/V Receiver with Front Stage Surround Advance (Silver)
Pioneer VSX-417-K - 5 Channel A/V Receiver with Front Stage Surround Advance (Black)