Hi

I am new aorund here, so please bear with me.


I bought a Yamaha RXV2500 about a month ago. the set up is as follows;

front channel is routed through the line out into a Home theartre Direct imput) Musical Fidelity A5 Amp to drive Magneplaner 1.6 QRs

the Centre( B & W LCR60) & Surround( Maggies SS1) are driven by the Yamaha Interamps.

the sound is great.

My issue is that i have to crank up the volume to almost -10 dbs to get the any impact at all. INfact I can hardly hear any sound unless the volume is at least -35 to -30 dbs

( the volume range on the Yamaha is -80 to +10 bds.

is this normal?

When I use the Yamaha to drive all speakers, things are a little bit better. changing from auto set up and manual does make much of a difference