Denon (or Possibly Other) Receiver Major Question- HELP!
After owning my Denon 3801 Receiver around 3 years, I just found something out in a good way that doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever & I was hoping any Denon owners or possibly any other owner of a 5.1 or 7.1 Receiver could answer this as well, as I'm totally puzzled beyond belief.
I normally connect my CD when I want to listen to my receiver by analog direct from the CD players RCA outputs direct to the receivers CD RCA inputs. Out of curiosity, today I plugged the analog cables from my CD player instead directly into the analog outputs labeled CDR/Tape (there are also 2 other analog RCA outputs labeled VCR1 & VCR2). Before you say anything, there are seperate inputs for CDR/Tape, VCR1 & VCR2, so we're talking 2 seperate animals & I plugged my cables into the output for CDR/Tape not the input.
The effect was that the sound was so much better, I seemed to get more power if that's the word from a lower volume level then I did when I was using the CD input (which was internally set at analog).
Can someone please explain what is happening? Should I have been connecting the CD player all these years to the receivers analog output instead of using its analog input? Or is their possibly something wrong with the CD analog input that the tape/cdr output sounds better/more powerful? Note all the internal manual settings I made on the receiver are basically the same.
Would appreciate anyones help.