Hey Dave..... You can still try and wrap you head around the trouble with the Sherwood !!! LOL... If I totaly understood that thing it is a GREAT preamp.... But the hundreds of settings it has it just totally ABOVE ME !!! Nav... I've said it time and time again... Being a part of all you guys on here and being a friend of Lee's is PRICELESS !!!!! The little wife said last night she can't believe what these guys on here do for each other.... She hears it all !!!!!
SHERWOOD P-965 HELP !!!
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I can sympathise with the technical difficulties you might be having with your preamplifier, Kevin. My Sony AV receiver for my home surround sound system, simple as it is, gave me a fit when I couldn't get surround through the satellites. My best friend's wife, pressed one button on the receiver's front panel and everything returned to normal. This was after I repeatedly scrolled through all the audio settings on the onscreen menu and checked my wiring.
Now, as far as Lee gifting you a PL 3000 preamplifier, that's simply awesome. Lee is the biggest Santa around... all year-round.
Nando.
Now, as far as Lee gifting you a PL 3000 preamplifier, that's simply awesome. Lee is the biggest Santa around... all year-round.
Nando.
There you are Nando !!!! OMG.. Yea.. It drives me crazy ! I can feel you pain... This thing can do so anything if ya can operate it... I thought maybe I could. BUT... Nope I cant. I've got my 700 on the front channel... Got a 400 on the rear and thanks to Jerry I now have a Hafler on the two center channels.... When its adjusted right there is no better surround !!! It will bring ya off the couch ! But...... Now I decide I want to listen to a CD.. All those adjustments are useless !!! and there is a way to store your surround adjustments and you plain stereo adjustments....Its just way over my head !
Just starting to read the manual, but it looks like the first thing you will need to do is specify whether you're using ANALOG or DIGITAL LINK inputs...there's a TOSLINK input for digital audio signals, and I suspect that this has to be turned off and the analog inputs turned on, unless you have a digital out on the CD player, then maybe you could try using a TOSLINK cable for connecting the CD player...
They sure aren't making this easy, are they? (!)
See page 23 step 4...
They sure aren't making this easy, are they? (!)
See page 23 step 4...
Mighty nice of ya Dave to look into that ! Thanks.. Heck no they dont make it easy. Thing is i've never changed anything on my CD player... It worked great at one time just like it is. One day I hit the CD button and SONOS pops up !!! 
... I've not had much time to fool with it over the past couple days but when I go home im going to put the CD in the AUX Imput ! And when the sherwood place opens im calling them !!! Lee solved my problem last night !!!! I will soon have a seperate preamp for the CD player ! We have a Crutchfield store about 3 miles from my house !! I know some of those real young guys up there and they tell me they can fix it and show me how to save my settings.... I gotta see this !!! But... Like Lee said ... the 10 year old next door is usually the one to go to with these problems !!!
... I've not had much time to fool with it over the past couple days but when I go home im going to put the CD in the AUX Imput ! And when the sherwood place opens im calling them !!! Lee solved my problem last night !!!! I will soon have a seperate preamp for the CD player ! We have a Crutchfield store about 3 miles from my house !! I know some of those real young guys up there and they tell me they can fix it and show me how to save my settings.... I gotta see this !!! But... Like Lee said ... the 10 year old next door is usually the one to go to with these problems !!!
Mighty nice of ya Dave to look into that ! Thanks.. Heck no they dont make it easy. Thing is i've never changed anything on my CD player... It worked great at one time just like it is. One day I hit the CD button and SONOS pops up !!! ... I've not had much time to fool with it over the past couple days but when I go home im going to put the CD in the AUX Imput ! And when the sherwood place opens im calling them !!! Lee solved my problem last night !!!! I will soon have a seperate preamp for the CD player ! We have a Crutchfield store about 3 miles from my house !! I know some of those real young guys up there and they tell me they can fix it and show me how to save my settings.... I gotta see this !!! But... Like Lee said ... the 10 year old next door is usually the one to go to with these problems !!!
... I've not had much time to fool with it over the past couple days but when I go home im going to put the CD in the AUX Imput ! And when the sherwood place opens im calling them !!! Lee solved my problem last night !!!! I will soon have a seperate preamp for the CD player ! We have a Crutchfield store about 3 miles from my house !! I know some of those real young guys up there and they tell me they can fix it and show me how to save my settings.... I gotta see this !!! But... Like Lee said ... the 10 year old next door is usually the one to go to with these problems !!!
Good luck, Kev!
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No, call SHERWOOD before you let CRUTCHFIELD near it. You're just missing something you aren't used to. Have you used a simple Dolby 5.1 channel reciever before?
First of all, get all the surround settings TURNED OFF so that you are just in plain old 2.0 STEREO...then work from there.
Also make sure the headphones are not on by chance (you have a Dolby double-D with a headphone over them)
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SKIP the SONOS thing until you are sure you are in simple stereo mode, then go through the manual from then on.
I think the biggest thing you are freaking out on is possibly the wrong thing to freak out on. You said you have very little volume, so make sure the speakers (are tere SPEAKERS? There is an A-965 AMP, this is a P- for PROCESSOR.
Anyway, you've got it in headphonemode or a monitor swtiched in (remember having a tape loop (or muting switch) on and nothing on the inputit then wondering why the tuner was really weak)? So perhaps it is CROSSTALK you are hearing and something isn't switched right. If you looked at the manual's front diagrams you saw that there is a way to use it like a loop, only it's not directly.
Meanwhile strip it down and start with the basics one at a time and master the unit with a tuner or CD player until you start to figure that out. I still think you have a button pushed that needs to be off for now. Call Sherwood.
First of all, get all the surround settings TURNED OFF so that you are just in plain old 2.0 STEREO...then work from there.
Also make sure the headphones are not on by chance (you have a Dolby double-D with a headphone over them)
.
SKIP the SONOS thing until you are sure you are in simple stereo mode, then go through the manual from then on.
I think the biggest thing you are freaking out on is possibly the wrong thing to freak out on. You said you have very little volume, so make sure the speakers (are tere SPEAKERS? There is an A-965 AMP, this is a P- for PROCESSOR.
Anyway, you've got it in headphonemode or a monitor swtiched in (remember having a tape loop (or muting switch) on and nothing on the inputit then wondering why the tuner was really weak)? So perhaps it is CROSSTALK you are hearing and something isn't switched right. If you looked at the manual's front diagrams you saw that there is a way to use it like a loop, only it's not directly.
Meanwhile strip it down and start with the basics one at a time and master the unit with a tuner or CD player until you start to figure that out. I still think you have a button pushed that needs to be off for now. Call Sherwood.
Thank you orange !!!! Thanks alot... Yea this is my third 7.1 preamp ! And it took me a while to get the first two ! I called Sherwood and stayed on hold forever... I left my number for them to call me back !! And nobody but me touches my stuff... lol.. But some of these young guys at Crutchfield are up on all this new surround stuff !!! I WILL MASTER THIS ONE ONE DAY !!!! I know what all it will do its just getting it to do it !!!!
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Well.... Anybody hear that scream ? I just fixed it !!! So damn simple... I was running one digital cable out of the cd player.. I had the digital imput assigned wrong.... Had to be on coax 1... I think I had it on USB or something.... Pretty sure Orange told me that was my prob ! Now I got to figure out how to go into stereo and out of surround when I want to play CD... Then be able to go back to the correct surround settings... And this thing wiil do that and remember youe settings if I can just figure out how to do that !!! Damn thing still says SONAS when ya push CD button... But it works....
Just got something else done... '' Like you all give a rats ass ''... lol... When Im in surround mode I cant run this 700 wide open... If I do it drowns out the center channel. So when I switch to Cd my 700 is only running about half way... Now I have figured out how to go in and turn it all the way up when in CD mode !!!! Now the meters fly when Im playing CD... This thing aint so bad.... Im really going to get it all one day !!!!
Im goint to try RCA's next... For now Im pretty happy with it... Nando ... When all else fails just keep pushing button !!! LOL.. Thats kinda what I did ! My biggest help was when I got back there and found out I didn't even have RCA's going to thr CD input.. LOL !!! That told me alot !!! I'm going to blame that on Sutton !!