[freakaftr8]

Cool sounds your amp is fine, the amp is seperate from the reciever, on your model I believe the amp, looking from the back in is on the right side, the problem enlies on the stereo itself, check those wax caps on the mainboard. When you power up the tv, you will notice that the tubes in the stereo do not power up, the tv uses an audio output and just uses the amplifier to produce the audio, the bad caps in the reciever if it's close to my model (CTC-16) they are under the tuning and volume control for the stereo. Look for the flaky wax cals on the board, some stand up vetically too. I believe the only difference in your combo and mine is the amp in yours uses tubes as mine is solid state, but the stereo recoevers are simiar.