What are the essential elements of a stereo system?

What are the essential elements of a stereo system?

Jeff Colen (President, A Sharper Home, Inc.) gives expert video advice on: What are the essential elements of a stereo system?; Will my CD player play CDs that I burn on my computer? and more...

The basic components of a stereo system are an amplifier, speakers and source. That source could be a CD player, a DVD player, an iPod or a TV tuner - anything that provides audio and video. A pure stereo system only has audio, no video. If you move to video, you're typically talking about something called an AV receiver, which is an audio-video receiver which incorporates audio and video processing into the whole picture.