All these specs, and they avoid the specs most important to sound quality. Very suspicious.
- What's the Total Harmonic Distortion at the rated power level? Some of Samsung's previous systems were rated at 10% T.H.D.! A decent receiver will be less than 0.1%.
- How many ohms are the speakers? Some of Samsuns previous systems were 3ohm, which pull more wattage out of the same components, artificially bumping up the wattage specs.
- What's the sensitivity of the speakers? Many low end speakers require a more power to fill a room with sound, so the receiver will be operating near it's peak wattage where distortion and clipping is worst.
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All these specs, and they avoid the specs most important to sound quality. Very suspicious.
- What's the Total Harmonic Distortion at the rated power level? Some of Samsung's previous systems were rated at 10% T.H.D.! A decent receiver will be less than 0.1%.
- How many ohms are the speakers? Some of Samsuns previous systems were 3ohm, which pull more wattage out of the same components, artificially bumping up the wattage specs.
- What's the sensitivity of the speakers? Many low end speakers require a more power to fill a room with sound, so the receiver will be operating near it's peak wattage where distortion and clipping is worst.