I did have a look at mconfig, but could find no way to access D2... will have another play/read of the manual and see if I can find a way to select D2 on this speaker.

Further testing - attached a CD player to the input D1 - the sound is intermittent, you get a very short blip of sound, then nothing, then a blip, then nothing, and so on. So, definitely the speaker, and not cables.