Anything that drives speakers must be or have amplifiers. They are rated in watts.
http://www.retrevo.com/support/Philips-HTS5580W-Home-Theater-Systems-manual/id/23889dj591/t/2/
It says the power output, presumably in the phoniest of terms - all channels summed together with THIRTY PRECENT DISTORTION which would seriously risk any speaker system and the health of tha amps themselves - is 1000 watts. This is a joke, a lie, marekting at its worst, especially when the totoal power consumption of the unit (that power whci it drwas from the wall outlet) is ONLY 135 watts.
Philips must be onto something no one else has ever seen - they get six times as much sound energy out of the unit as the amount of electricity that goes into it, plus all that heat. That, my friend, would be a miracle and would put all the reputable amp maufacturers, who rate their amps in honest watts per channel at certain (vanishingly low) distortion figures, to shame.
If you push this unit into sustained 30% distortion it will self destruct.
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