I recently bought a Daewoo 9000S5 DVD player - had some good reviews and was
cheap! Two days later my Phillips CD player (bought in 1987) died - so I
tried to hook up the DVD in its place. (Simple L/R Stereo out to the amp).
The sound quality is awful! I've played around with the menus - setting
SPDIF (?) to off or PCM (?) improves things but it still sounds bad.

It sounds like the signal to the amp is too strong - is this likely, or is a
cheap DVD player simply not up to the job? I don't notice the same
distortion on CD sound from the TV (via SCART lead), but then the TV is not
exactly hi-fi. The amp is quite old (Dual something or other - not expensive
but has been fine for everything I've needed up to now...)

cheers

KotF