pioneer VSX94TXH/LSi15's

brittle
brittle Posts: 37
edited January 2008 in Electronics
Opinions/reviews on the Pioneer vsx94txh? I recently purchased Polk lsi15's and a psw1000 sub, will the pioneer drive the 15's o.k. or should I drive them with a seperate 2 channel amp? I'm currently useing a 10 yr. old Denon avr3000.
Brittle
Pioneer VSX 94TXH AVR
Polk LSi-15 front
Polk LSi-15 rear
Polk PSW1000 sub
Polk LSiC center
Samsung HL67A750 DLP
Sony PS3
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  • sbpolk
    sbpolk Posts: 644
    edited January 2008
    I can tell you from experience that the Elite 94 sounds great with the LSi15s.... but I backed up the Elite with a 300 watt per channel amp. You will find very quickly, here, that you need amplification for the LSis. They are 4 ohm speakers, and need a bunch of power. Most AVRs will not do them justice.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,312
    edited January 2008
    I fully agree,

    The 94 is a sweet receiver and sounds awesome, the one problem is the Lsi's need an external amp. The Pioneer amps while can hold the load under normal listening conditions, it can't under reference levels, it will go into protection. The load is hard on it and it uses it's reserve power to just run a 4 ohm load. It's rated for 8 and 6 ohm load speakers and like most other receivers it runs out of gas.

    Pioneer is releasing a new reference receiver . It has 200 watts per channel but costs 7 grand. It's a monster receiver and finally there is a real replacement for the long run vsx49tx which could hold a 4 ohm load at reference levels and do a fairly good job doing so.

    Dan
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