A home theater receiver can have a price tag that ranges from $250 and all the way up to $2500. However, the actual sound difference between an expensive receiver and an inexpensive one is barely perceptible. But if you really want to have a home theater that shakes your room when an explosion blows on screen, the more money you’re willing to shell out for a receiver for your home theater, the louder will you be able to turn the volume of your speaker system up without the sound getting distorted.

Just how loud you can get the sound to go up is indicated by how many watts your home theater receiver has. Any home theater can work well with a home theater receiver that has 500 watts. 500 watts is as many times the power of those small speakers you will find in an ordinary television and is in fact, a whole lot more than what most factory installed car audio systems have. But if you are truly craving for a home theater that is truly shaking, you might want to go all out and get yourself a nice home theater receiver that boast of a thousand or more watts.