Help ... new (refurbed) Panasonic SA-HE200 problem

Before I call Panasonic, I figured i'd throw this out ...

I just got my refurbed Panasonic SA-he200 from J and R today. I let the unit
get to room tempuraturre (it was very cold when it came from UPS) and hooked
everything up. I have a AudioSource sytem 230 speaker set, I hooked up the
speakers properly and the first thing I did was to run the test tones, as
the manual described. everything worked except the SR channel. I removed and
replaced the speaker leads to that speaker, same problem. Then I swapped the
rear speakers, the speaker worked when connected to SL. Next, I cut a new
length of speaker wire, and connected the speaker with the new wire to the
SR speaker out put, and it still didn't work.
I played a DVD in digital mode, the new Led Zeppelin dvd, and still no sound
from SR, but SL worked fine.

I don't have a Surround back speaker attached. However, in the course of
troubleshooting, I did conenct the speaker to SB, and SB works fine with the
test tone. I think I covered everything.

I also noticed when testing with a VHS tape that DPL II didn't seem to work
properly, the best I could get was sound coming only from the Right front
speaker in any of the DSP modes.

I did have my old Pioneer CS-77s plugged int to B out puts, which worked
fine.
I do have an audio source EQ100 plugged into the tape ports. I did make sure
I was not in tape monitor while testing this.

Have I missed any troubleshooting steps? Does this sound like a defective
unit? Perhaps buying a refurb wasn't a great idea after all, but it was just
$199. FWIW I chose this unit because it has Phono input, AND a tape monitor
loop.

Thanks
K

"Kurt.H" wrote in message
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I just got my refurbed Panasonic SA-he200 from J and R today...
everything worked except the SR channel.

I don't think that you can shut off the SR or SL speakers individually,
so maybe the volume is turned way too far down on the SR speaker. Then
again, maybe not.

I also noticed when testing with a VHS tape that DPL II didn't seem to
work properly, the best I could get was sound coming only from the Right
front speaker in any of the DSP modes.

This doesn't sound good.

Does this sound like a defective unit?

The DPL II is definitely not working properly.