Legrand - On-Q F9008LAV1 5.1 Home Theater Connection Kit, Light Almond

I get the question all the time do I need a receiver for a surround sound setup and that's kind of a complicated question it's in a general sense if you want a traditional surround sound system or you can pick out your your front speakers pick out your rear speakers have ceilings upward firing speakers then yes you'll need a receiver because that allows you to specifically connect these different speakers to those zones or channels what we would call them so if you have a front left front right center you can individually pick up those speakers and connect them to the receiver so yes you do need a receiver for a surround sound setup like that with a lot of flexibility and a lot of we have the ability to kind of change out things a little bit to go a little bit into how a receiver works essentially it takes all the incoming signals for media devices so you have an Xbox Playstation 4 a fi