Audio or av amp for speakers/tv ?

[philv]

Hi

I to connect a pair of good quality hifi speakers to my tv.

Now, i know. Can use a normal hifi amp.
Howether, there would not be the possibility to add a centre speaker at a later date.

If i use an av amplifier, how does this work?
If i use only the 2 speakers would. Lose the other channels? ( in a 5.1 or 7.1 av amp)?
Or is it possible to get av amps to act as 2.1 amps?

I hope i made the question clear.

Thanks
Phil

[0000]

philv said:

Or is it possible to get av amps to act as 2.1 amps?

Yes.

[philv]

Thanks.
Do they all tend to have this facility

[0000]

I don't know, but I would be surprised if there was an amp on sale today that didn't support it.

The 7.1 Denon AVR-1912 I bought last week was in stereo by default and I had to change it to get it to pick up the rest of my 5.1 speakers.

[TEKNOPUG]

AV amps are designed to power all equipment and formats. So you can connect TV, Blu-Ray, CD, Tuner, PC, I-pod, turntable etc etc. You can then select which speaker configuration and output for each input. So you could have 5/7.1 for your Tv but 2.1 stereo for your CD player, i-pod etc.

[Bullett]

Does the .1 not refer to the sub-woofer not the centre? So a 2.1 will be stereo plus SW.

My AV amp will run in various modes and I think it even detects which speakers are connected. I don't get a 7.1 option because I don't have the 2 extra speakers.

[TEKNOPUG]

Bullett said:

Does the .1 not refer to the sub-woofer not the centre? So a 2.1 will be stereo plus SW.

My AV amp will run in various modes and I think it even detects which speakers are connected. I don't get a 7.1 option because I don't have the 2 extra speakers.

Yes. You should have the option to run 2 channel stereo and everything else upto 7.1

[BlueMR2]

If you have a nice stereo amp for your fronts you can do what i do and run preouts from the av amp to the stereo and let the av amp handle the rest.

Could just use small satalites out of the way behind the couch.