Distortion Coming Out of External Speakers? Please Help?

Distortion Coming Out of External Speakers? Please Help?

• Hi, i have a beautiful 32" westinghouse tv, with external speakers hooked up to it. they're just shelf speakers that are connected to the aiwa amp. Although the sound comes out of my external speakers, there is so much distortion coming out, even at low volume. P.s. They are connected with rca'a from the amp to the tv

• Answer:

  Hi Sorry we need more information to be able to help you properly Model nu of the aiwa amp, speakers, Tv and how you have it hooked up. You say you have it hooked up from the tv to the amp to the speakers but how ? Now I can take a stab at it here as you have the TV audio outputs going into your amplifier. Is the Aiwa a receiver ? are you coming off a variable output of the TV to a receiver ? If this is the case and you set your volume on your TV to high it will overdrive the inputs of the receiver and cause distortion. Receiver line inputs like to see a fixed line input of 1 to 1.5 volts anything above that and your could be over-driving the inputs causing distortion. If this is a receiver then you want to come off the TV's fixed line outputs to a receiver and vary the level with the receivers volume control. Kevin 40 years hi end audio video specialist