I'm an Idiot

My nice, shiny, new amp came home
With me in the car
A new depth of home hi-fi
Surround sound wherever you are.
I plugged the connections in carefully
Put the wire 'round the room
Hung the speakers deliberately
These suckers would really boom!
I then inserted a DVD
Waiting for the magic to work
Only two channels out of six
Seemed to want to work.
For an hour a fitted and fiddled
Rewired and rewired again
But no matter what I did
The result was still the same.
So, I went to bed disheartened
And dreamed of how I'd failed
I slept poorly through the night
And was awake when morning was hailed.
I tried again in the morning
Nothing had been changed
So, I figured I'd add my CD player
As the room I rearranged.
I put in a favourite CD
And wound it up rather loud
And to my bewildered surprise
This is what I found:
The minor channels are much softer
Than the other two
They only kick in with volume
This I'm telling you.
The bastard thing was working
And now DVDs I cannot stop
At least I'm only an idiot at home
And didn't prove it in the shop.

Self-explanatory, really. That's pretty much how it happened. But, it works now and I'm happy. For a while. You can't have enough toys.