Pioneer SC35 Arrives Thursday!!!

Welcome to the "ICE Club" , and congrats what is a fine AVR. I have the 1st model (SC-07) and love it. Enjoy. Sub will probably be on your short list.

Congrats, that new SC is going to destroy your old Sony, not by alittle bit either. Take your time,set it up right. Use the auto calibration, make sure the mic is set at ear level in your listening position. You can always tweek everything after. Happy listening.

Awesome it will upgrade your DVD and play your speakers to the best that a AVR $1000-$1500 can do and out do others with features ....and yes you are ready upgraditis...enjoy

Very nice purchase.

I guess the thing that throws me off is the speakers that people often connect to the high end equipment. Maybe it's just a "gotta start somewhere" thing.

I've got about $2000 worth of speakers/sub running on my Denon 1910 which will be heading out the door in favor of an SC or a 1120 w/ separate amps setup in a couple of months. But when I see $1000 of speakers with a $2000 receiver I'm just thrown.

Now I am definitely always in favor of more power. But as SRTer said, it's going to be more than those speakers can handle.

Can anyone chime in on this? Maybe I'm missing something here.

(All of the above is written in sincerity not sarcasm, I really do want to know if I am missing something here. Always trying to learn )

SRTer wrote: »

Thanks, my setup has me in a postion where I don't feel I have to do anymore. However, I do want a dedicated Rotel amp for the RTi A9's.

Why? The SC-35 will drive them fully. I see other things maybe in your system to further your enjoyment.

BWilberg266 wrote: »

I see where you're coming from.
Dang technology and it's ever changing ways...

Yeah HDMI 1.4, 3D and iPhone 4 apps I felt was a must for use with my new AVR. I had not even had my last reciever (Pioneer Elite VSX-23) a year before I figured I had messed up.

Plus, I wanted more speakers with demanding power levels.

Upgrade-I-tis is a mother*%#@er. :mad:

I'm more than sure you will work those Monitors and PSW sub to death. The Monitors nice but are not ready for what you?re going to put to them.

Specifically your Monitor 40?s are rated 20-125 watts, and the SC-35 will put at least 135 watts to each of your speakers in 5.1 channel. Home Theater .Com tested a SC-37 with the same power section and the bench test said.

Now I am definitely always in favor of more power. But as SRTer said, it's going to be more than those speakers can handle.

That is simply not true. You are much more likely to damage your speakers with too little power verses too much. The Monitor 40's will be perfectly fine with the SC-35.

F1nut wrote: »

That is simply not true. You are much more likely to damage your speakers with too little power verses too much. The Monitor 40's will be perfectly fine with the SC-35.

I do not mean to imply that you cannot power a lesser speaker with an amp well above it's power rating, but rather that you do run the risk of blowing the speaker should you really start cranking it up.

Yes you can damage speaker with too little power, but typically that only happens when you have a receiver or power source that provides an amount of power that is not significantly lower than the maximum wattage handling of the speaker. If the power supplied is say 3 to 4 times less than the maximum power handling of a speaker it may sound like crap when you crank it up to the max, but there is a very low likelihood that the speaker will have much, if any, damage. There will be alot of distortion, but a low likelihood of damage to the speaker.

When you approach a power level that is much closer to the maximum power handling of a speaker and introduce high levels of distortion that is where you have a problem.

Think of it this way. Kicking a soccer ball randomly around a gym is not going to be a problem because that larger space has the ability to accommodate large erratic dispersions of energy. Kicking a soccer ball erratically around your living room on the other hand will present some problems, more than likely there will be damage. In both scenarios there is the same amount of random bouncing coming from the ball, but in one instance the room is suited to contain a larger release of energy and in the other it simply cannot contain that same amount of uncontrolled action.

So yes, there is a possibility of damaging a speaker with a low powered amp, but is not in the way that everyone likes to throw that phrase around.

Crank a speaker up on an underwhelmingly powered AVR...not likely that it's going to be a problem. (besides sounding crappy due to high levels of distortion) Crank a speaker up on an overwhelming supply of power with a speaker that can't handle the amount of power you are giving it, and you'll get a blown speaker.