Panasonic DMR-EZ45V distorted audio?
 

Hi everyone,

I'm having an issue with distorted audio through the tape deck. I have the machine connected via HDMI to the TV.

Playing dvd is fine, the audio is clear and crisp, no distortion.

The vhs playback however has significant distortion. It sounds like someone has turned up the audio very loud and the audio is clipping or overloaded.

I have tested with a few old VHS tapes I know to have good audio a couple years ago, plus one retail vhs of The Matrix. I even tried to record some audio onto a blank cassette in case it was tracking but the audio is still very bad.

VHS deck reports it is receiving LR audio which I assume means it is HIFI?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

James