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post #1 of 5
11/22/12 at 12:16am
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Super stoked, Received this as a freebie from the CEO at work. Sort of a thanksgiving present. I know nothing about home audio.

What can you guys tell me about this? Also what kind of speakers do I need to be looking at for it?

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post #2 of 5
11/22/12 at 12:56am
U have a VSX-26TX on your hands as stated here
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Home/AV-Receivers/Elite+Receivers/VSX-26TX
According to specs it is fine to drive speakers with 6 ohm impedence so i'd stick to 6-8 ohms speakers and avoid 4 ohm ones? Beyond that it's up to you if u are planning a 2.0 or 5.1 set up as per your budget smily_headphones1.gif
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post #3 of 5
11/24/12 at 4:48pm

That's a nice receiver though it's funny now seeing all those  s- video connections (which have obviously been replaced  by HDMI).  You can pretty much use any 'normal' speaker you find.  And most 'normal' speakers are 8 ohm so...

 

If you wanted to move up to digital too you could add an OPPO blue ray which is a fist class blue ray, SACD, HDCD, etc etc etc player which also has multi channel audio out - but that is probably way beyond what you'd be looking for.
 

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post #4 of 5
11/24/12 at 7:53pm
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Originally Posted by Spillages View Post

Super stoked, Received this as a freebie from the CEO at work. Sort of a thanksgiving present. I know nothing about home audio.
What can you guys tell me about this? Also what kind of speakers do I need to be looking at for it?

Did you have a budget for speakers?

You might get some great advice for this on Head-Fi.

but you might as want to post on the websites AVSforum & AVforum.

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post #5 of 5
11/25/12 at 4:41pm

If you have a decent budget, pair this receiver with Pioneer's own SP-FS52 floor standing loudspeakers, which were designed by Andrew Jones (designer of the TAD Reference One, a $80,000 pair of loudspeakers). These are well within a $300 budget for loudspeakers and a great bang-for-the-buck. 

 

destroysall.

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