Is Denon 3313 enough to drive tsi500?

Gilbert Payne

Hello all! This is my first post. Nice forum here.
I started buying my system, and reading at the same time. I have about a month before my room is done. It is 20'x20' with cieling running 8' up to 14'. So far I bought a DSW Pro660wi sub, a cs20 center, and 2- tsi400 fronts. I am wanting to get the denon avr-3313ci (125w per-channel, 2 driven) to drive them. I want to get decent music and home theater. We (me and wife) are getting older (over 50), and can't handle ear bleeding volume like we did in the 70's. But we still crank it up pretty good sometimes. I'am second guessing the fronts, and thinking of ussing tsi500 thinking they may be better for music, and still good for HT. I'am hoping you guys can give me some pros and cons of this and if (how well) this reciever will drive the 500's. Sorry for the long rant.
Any help is much thanked!

mantis

I wil be fine with those speakers. it's a more laid back receiver which I believe you and your wife will enjoy for many years to come. It's got plenty of features to play with and the tonal quality between the speakers and receiver is a very nice clean easy to listen to combo.
I say go for it.

nhhiep

easily. Denon AVR are good. I did even use my Denon 3808 with Lsi9s, 1C, Rti12s before. no problem.

cnh

Welcome to Club Polk!

Although the 500s can handle more power and like it, you should be OK with that Denon. It says it's a 125 watts x 7 but it's really more like my older AVR 2807 (110 x 7) in size, weight and power. Everyone is going nuts with their power ratings these days. (Actually the 3313 weighs 26.5 lbs and the 2807 almost 31 lbs. (Says something about build quality).

I used to power some M-70s (previous generation of your TSI-500s) off that Denon. I've found Denon amps to be more friendly to Polk speakers. Especially the M, TSI, and RTI series. I now run my 70s on an Onkyo TX-SR 805, better for HT, but not as warm and satisfying for two channel music as the Denon was!

So I'm sure you'll be happy if you don't play things too loudly! Plus, that unit, like mine, has pre-outs for all channels so you could add an external amp for more power to the TSI-500s if you wanted to in the future!

Enjoy!

cnh

Gilbert Payne

Thanks for the welcome and info. It's very time consuming and tedious to research all that goes into a HT system. Trying to read online manuals and understand all the specks, deffinitions, compatability, ect... for AVR's, Speakers, Subwwofers, TV's, Blu Ray 3D players, Cable Boxes, PC's, Wierless routers, etc..
It' realy nice to have forums with people willing to share their knowledge and experience, Thanks again!

ravaneli

i think you can biamp the fronts with that AVR, whatever that will do. It doesn't hurt for sure. Total power output of the receiver is Much less that advertised. Particular AVR has power consumption 670W. AB amps have 60-70% efficiency, so the maximum possible output would be 450W, which is 7x65W. Hurts, huh? The rest goes in the heatsinks. Sux.

You can still get 125 to the front two channels though, if not all channels are loaded. You can get even more than that to the fronts, if you are running only 2.0 in biamp.

It's still a fantastic receiver, just don't live with illusions. All receivers are like that. They are not more powerful than the older versions, just measured differently. When u see the new version is lighter than the old, like that dude pointed, you can bet a dollar the older version is at least as powerful as the new.

That receiver has a full set of preouts, so if u ever decide you want more power just buy the deal on emotiva's front page