Onkyo tx-sr506 & lsi15

ysheffer

Hello,
How would my TX-SR506 match-up with LSI15 ? will it be able to push/utilize them ?
I'll appreciate your experienced advice. Thanks

AsSiMiLaTeD

No way, not even close.

At a MINIMUM you'd need to step into the 8xx line, and even then you'd want to add an amp for get the most out of them. They would likely WORK on the 8xx series, just not to their potential. On that 506 though, that would be just terrible and would most likely damage something even at low listening levels.

cfrizz

Welcome to Club Polk Ysheffer!

The short inaccurate answer is yes they will play being powered by your 506. But I would NOT recommend it!

The more accurate answer is that while you will be hearing music/movies, you will NOT be hearing the speakers operate to their full potential, it would sound pretty awful, & soft. So you would end up turning up the volume to hear better & that would end up over stressing your receiver which would overheat & shut down. Hopefully before it did permanant damage to your speakers.

I would recommend before getting new speakers, you should get a new receiver that has preouts. Look for the Onkyo 7xx or 8xx series. Once you do that, then start looking at the LSI's. By then most likely the new LSI's will be out & you will be able to scoop up the old ones for a song.

Bernal

AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »

No way, not even close.

At a MINIMUM you'd need to step into the 8xx line, and even then you'd want to add an amp for get the most out of them. They would likely WORK on the 8xx series, just not to their potential. On that 506 though, that would be just terrible and would most likely damage something even at low listening levels.

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grimmace19

Even with an external amp I just had problems running preouts from an onkyo 706... not saying it wont work with all of them just saying I had issues. May go with a dedicated pre now just to save any additional headaches

devani

i ran Lsi15's with HK445 and few external amps...LSi loves power

ysheffer

So what about the RTI/RTIA series ?
what will be the best match in terms of power and utilization ?

renowilliams

ysheffer wrote: »

So what about the RTI/RTIA series ?
what will be the best match in terms of power and utilization ?

I'm sure you could drive the RTIA5's without any real issue and possibly the A'7's but you be pretty much in the same boat with the A9's. If your planning on mostly using your speakers for home theater, the RTIA line will work excellent for this. The whole line is 8OHM vs 4 ohm for the LSI line.