3-Way components, crossover, amp

You have a 8volt cd player, turn the gain on the amp back to the 8volt setting. As far as the crossover goes, using the one on the amp, set it around the 100hz HP mark. I just sold my last set of these speakers and cannot for the life of me remember if they have a level control included in the passive crossovers for the speakers. If they do, set it to a lower level, -3 or -6db for example.

The crossover in the cd player is called a active crossover, as is the one in the amp. It filters the frequencies before amplification. The speaker crossovers are called passive and filter frequencies after amplification. If you have the crossovers in the cd player turned on and set incorrectly, it will affect how the speakers sound due to the limited range of frequencies that they receive.

The CD8445 is one powerful tuning device. If you are having problems with the top end being too bright, it will be somewhat easy to tweak the equalization in the cd player to bring it back under control. You are going to have to learn how this cd player works as you are the one that will determine what sounds good to you.