Thread: I just received my new STRDH190 Sony stereo receiver!

I just received my new STRDH190 Sony stereo receiver!

Sounds not half shabby with those Dayton Audio 30" 6-ohmers. Even the pipe organ sounded pretty good with MP3's streamed to it via Bluetooth from the telephone. The Musicolet player app on my Motorola Moto E6 Android 9 has an equalizer that takes some fiddling. BASS and TREBLE setting on the eq seems much better than the Classical setting. Pop, rock and jazz all sound good on the Rock equalizer setting.

The receiver is neat. I can rename an input to something like VIDEO if the Samsung Smart TV is the source of the sound. I have a Panasonic Blu-Ray disc player than can handle DVD movies and music CD's as well. I also have a Windows 7 PC hooked up to the living room entertainment works.

I will now consider throwing a subwoofer into the audio video mess as well.

I will have to sit down with Sony manual tomorrow and figure out all the bells and whistles on this new receiver. It has a remote control and traditional balance and bass/treble settings as well. The receiver said 200 watts on the back, so I take it that this unit is 100 watts per channel. It has a thin cord plug-in antenna for FM reception which works fine living near Des Moines, Iowa.

The Toccata and Fugue F Major track sounds not so good on my VIPEX Bluetooth headphones and Onn Groove Walmart small Bluetooth laptop speaker. This track sounds OK through my 6" Kenwood car speakers with stock Toyota head unit as long as they are not cranked too high. BASS_TREBLE equalizer setting on the phone app works best for this pipe organ track I discovered.

The particular audio equipment played has much to do with pipe organ fidelity. It's not so much the source digital recording format.

Equalizer stereo components seem no longer necessary since digital music player apps have this technology built in these days. The music equalizer is now virtual. It was formerly physical hardware. Stereo phonographs in the 1960's and 1970's did not come with equalizers to boot. They had the old familiar Bass and Treble knobs to adjust various audio registers.

I consider three basic ranges of pitch that is perceived by human hearing. Bass, tenor and treble. Tenor is the range of the male voice from one octave above and one octave below middle C. Bass is all collective tones tone below tenor. Western harmony is centered around the tenor compass of sound. Musical chords are generally formed in the tenor range. Treble is all collective tones above tenor.

Your new receiver puts out 90 watts per channel at 8 ohms. The minimum load for this receiver is 6 ohms which means it won't drive 4 ohm loads.

I have only shut down an amp one time, 30 years ago. That being said, I was playing the music very loud for an extended period of time.

I think you'll be just fine as long as you don't over-drive the receiver (basically by playing it too loudly).

Enjoy!