I've recently purchased a used Yamaha RX-V850 receiver (without ever hearing it) . Ultimately I plan on using it as a pre-amp, but for now I need to hook up my speakers directly to it.
I just now tried it out for the first time only to find a hugely distorted sound coming from the speakers.
It sounds as though the source's (CD player) gain is to high. You know, if you plug an ipod into the AUX port with the volume jacked all the way up - it sounds like that.
I made sure that I turned on Tone Defeat, no DSP, nothing. I also tried the CD plunged in to the TAPE in and also changed the speakers from A to B - still the same.
To make sure my speakers haven't gone south, I plugged all them as well as the same CD player into my Onkyo receiver - it all sounds fine.
So, what gives? I can't conceive of anything I'm doing wrong, hooking up this receiver for two-channel listening isn't complicated. Perhaps something is wrong inside?
Any advice would be much appreciated!