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Channel imbalance with turntable playback

So I’ve been having a slight channel imbalance for awhile now. Vocal tend to lean left and just overall left leaning gain. I swapped the L&R input on the phono preamp and it sounds way more balanced. Any harm in just leaving it or should I swap them back and figure out what the problem is causing this? Thoughts? Thank you!
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russ69
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"...There is only one right position for all cables in your system..."

No you can swap two sets of cables and get back to normal stereo. You can swap phono pre and pre or pre and amp, etc. 
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"...You can swap whatever you want, but if you’re listening to a stereo source then your Left speaker is L channel and your right speaker is R channel..."

Yes if you swap one cable, left goes to right and right goes to left, but if you switch two sets of cables. you are back to the proper side but using the opposite side of the amp or preamp. There are no rules for using the left side channel of an amp to run the right side signal to the right hand speaker. 
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