Found a bit of an odd DVD player. Audio is messed up

[Captainclock]

Originally Posted by MRX37

Never heard of the AMW brand before. This DVD player is an AMW Model T-352

What makes this a bit odd is it has a built in AM/FM receiver.

Testing reveals the reason why it was thrown out. The audio sounds really weird. Bass is crackly and distorted regardless of volume, mids and highs sound weird and echoy.

From my brief testing, the sound seems mostly okay with the AM/FM tuner... maybe a bit clipped. A/V sounds awful.

Oh and a funny note it came with a DVD of The Waterboy in it. Considering the quality of that movie, yeah I can see they threw it out with the player.

So what would cause clipped, distorted sound? Far as I know no channels are blown, and the capacitors look okay.

Well if it has an AM/FM Stereo Receiver built-in more than likely it was a surround sound receiver with a built-in DVD Player, as for the funky sound maybe you could try messing around with the graphic equalizer effects, sometimes these things have really weird Graphic Equalizer effects built-in (kind of like how your computer sound systems do) whick make your sound sound funky.