How well does my AV receiver power my speakers?

Don't have power output for your model however this model

Denon AVR-X4200W
Seven Channels Continuously Driven, 8-Ohm Loads 76.8 watts

So that's not bad. Specs for your speakers

Sensitivity (2.83 Volts @ 1m)90 dB
Nominal Impedance (Ohms) 8

So they're a easy load, and sensitive.

Should be fine. But if you do want to upgrade power amplifiers how about this lol
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/ati-at6005-amplifier
 
I reckon true output is probably about 80W all channels driven. Since it's 100W 2 channels, and 600W power consumption, basically just guessing.

Getting a 3 channel amp for your front three is a big upgrade
 
nightrider1470 said:
I'm only using this amp with these speakers only in a 2.0 setup
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and what volume do you normally use?

i normally use between minus 30-40 db for tv and minus 16-24 db for movies. i don't tend to go any louder than minus 16 for anything tbh it's pretty loud. if your using a lot louder than me then your amp is too weak.
 
I have an earlier model (AVR-X2200W) with a pair of 2020i's in stereo and depending on source I find anything less than 40 far too quiet... could be my amp is under powered as I wouldn't say I have any problems with my hearing. Just tried my setup with volume in the 16-20 range and couldn't hear a thing! Terrestrial TV I find to be really low volume at the best of times anyway. Netflix and Prime Video I have to turn right up too. It's only when I play music via network or play on console that I find I don't need to tweak the volume. I'm not audiophile either and Ohms and dB confuses the hell out of me. Planning on getting a center speaker and sub but if amp is under powered is it worthwhile?
 
No idea what the guy listening to stuff at 16-24 is hearing

On my Denon, that is pretty much no sound at all. I use 55 for TV and 60 for movies. Any louder than that and the neighbours would be knocking on the door.
 
Have you calibrated the system?
If you use the negative gain setting, then -20dB will be quite loud.

I use amplifiers which are 200W per channel into 8ohm, 300W into 4ohm, once calibrated -20dB will be exactly the same volume as your system at -20dB.

Q Acoustic speakers are fairly inefficient, so they need a fair bit of power. IN fact, your Q 2020 need 2x the power of my huge floorstander speakers to reproduce the same dB output.
 
maj said:
I have an earlier model (AVR-X2200W) with a pair of 2020i's in stereo and depending on source I find anything less than 40 far too quiet... could be my amp is under powered as I wouldn't say I have any problems with my hearing. Just tried my setup with volume in the 16-20 range and couldn't hear a thing! Terrestrial TV I find to be really low volume at the best of times anyway. Netflix and Prime Video I have to turn right up too. It's only when I play music via network or play on console that I find I don't need to tweak the volume. I'm not audiophile either and Ohms and dB confuses the hell out of me. Planning on getting a center speaker and sub but if amp is under powered is it worthwhile?
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VincentHanna said:
No idea what the guy listening to stuff at 16-24 is hearing

On my Denon, that is pretty much no sound at all. I use 55 for TV and 60 for movies. Any louder than that and the neighbours would be knocking on the door.
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you may want to read my post again.

-16db is louder than -24db which is louder than -30db.

reference is supposedly 0db (zero). i usually have mine around -32db and the highest i ever go is -24db usually unless i'm showing it off then i'll go to -16db.

i quite clearly state "minus" and "db" in my post several times.
 
And I quite clearly stated dB confuses me as I'm new to home cinema scene.

VincentHanna said:
I had an AVR-X3200W (surely the same year) and my volume is the other way around.

60 is higher than 40.
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This if we're talking "positive" dB:p which explains the confusion over the figures. I'm used to pressing a volume button and it going up in increments of one, not minus.
 
VincentHanna said:
I had an AVR-X3200W (surely the same year) and my volume is the other way around.

60 is higher than 40.
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On Denon Receivers (or at least my X1300W) there is an option to use either relative volume scale (e.g. dB relative to reference), or a "standard" 0-100 volume scale.
 
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