In this little mini-series, we're going to just walk you through different applications. So this first one is going to be for the overall, I would say, general home theater enthusiast. I'm not talking about big, professional, engineered, massive, dedicated home theaters.
Those people, they're already in touch with this, we're already talking to them, but we welcome your calls at any point. We're happy to consult on those things and help you get the best results from that design that you're trying to do. This is for normal folks.
This is from people who have, you know, the typical thing most of us have, right? You have a room, call it a living room, and it doubles as pretty much your everything for entertainment, right? There's a TV in there, you know, your version of home theater might be streaming, Netflix and all the other various streaming services, and that's okay.
At a kind of a minimum, you're going to need a stereo pair of speakers and a subwoofer. And for those of you who are on a tight budget, I highly recommend that you get a receiver that is an AV receiver that has HDMI inputs that allows you to grow, right? How big and how much you should spend on the receiver is your own business.
Kind of a good place to knock off for many people is a 7.2 bass, meaning seven speakers and two subwoofer outputs. It lets you grow into probably 90% of the spaces that normal folks would have. And the cost difference between a 5.1 basic receiver and a 7.2 is pretty minimal these days. So what am I talking about? Well, you've got a couch, you've got chairs, you've got ottomans, and you've got some kind of a screen. Let's presume for the purposes of this, it's just a large TV.
Large could be a 50 inch, it could be an 83 inch OLED. But the purpose is it's a general purpose room. There are times when you're just entertaining guests, and you're all sitting in couches and chairs. And that's great. It's not optimal, right? It's not with everything oriented necessarily at the screen.
That's how real life works. What we do at REL is very different, especially as our general purpose subs that have something called a high level input in it. That allows you to have your cake and eat it too.
Among other things, it allows you to have music done optimally and theater done optimally. We have two different kinds of inputs on those subwoofers. One is called a high level input. It's got a large, in most cases, blue connector that locks into the rear of the subwoofer, and it actually connects up to two amplifier channels in your receiver, right? So your left and right mains also are the ones that feed your left and right speakers. I'm assuming in this instance, just a pure simple 2.1 system, two speakers, one sub, that allows you to go back and forth between music and film effortlessly. And if you had to do one thing on a simple 2.1 iteration of that, I'm on a tight budget, I can only afford two decent speakers in one subwoofer. Then go into your receiver, and you'll have to study the menu a little bit, but tell it there is no subwoofer hooked up. What that will do is ensure that your speakers are set to full range, passing everything that they should have, and they will then feed that full range signal to the REL using the high level input, and that will give you your cake and eat it too. Your speakers and your sub will be able to do everything that's demanded.
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