Distorted sound on Apple TV 3

Hi,
I just bought an Apple TV (gen. 3).
But I seem to have some problems with the sound. It is connected to my TV through HDMI and I have a speaker set connected directly to my TV. The problem is that the sound is distorted and the bass is all wrong. It’s like the Apple TV sends to high volume to the TV which is passed through to the speaker set.
When I connect my PC and Xbox to my TV using HDMI the sound is perfect. So I am only experiencing this with the Apple TV.
Anyone else got this problem? Any solutions?
Regards,
Stian

I have an Apple TV3, updated to the latest firmware, connected with HDMI cable (in correct direction) to a Toshiba Regza TV.
When streaming video or audio from iTunes (on a MacBook Air) or from my iPhone 4, the sound gets terribly distorted after 60-75 minutes. I usually solve the problem by switching the HDMI port on the TV, or stop streaming for half an hour.
I get the same distorion when connecting directly from the MacBook's Mini DisplayPort with a HDMI adapter.
I also have a PVR decoder connected via HDMI to the TV, this has never shown any problem.
Since the sound distortion occurs after some time, and is immediately solved when swithcing HDMI port, my conclusion is that the audio output level from the Apple TV is too high, or not correctly coded, causing some kind of overheating of the HDMI circuitry in the TV.
I have tried all the suggestions in this forum (disabling sleep, disabling Digital Dolby etc) with no improvement..

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