Have you ever turned on your system, only to find


the sound was totally wrong? Nothing focused, imaging gone, soundstage just disappeared? The bottom end had no impact, the voices were from everywhere, yet when I moved my position slightly left or right, the voices moved in that direction. The music sounded as if it jumped from in between the speakers out into the room very close to my chair. I was going nuts! I repositioned the speakers for the next 4 hours only to find that whatever I tried wouldn't bring back my marvelous sound.
Then I remembered I swapped cables between amp and pre last night. The pre has 2 outputs, one inverted from the other. I plugged both into the right side, one normal, one inverted. What a boob! Anyone have similar mis-steps they would like to share?
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Similar experience as Mihaitaa. I have w4s monos and was fiddling around back of one and accidentally hit the xlr/rca switch to rca (am using xlr) w/o realizing it. I actually brought the amp in for inspection (i'm local) since all of a sudden no sound was coming out of the speaker, and i thought I had fried the amp somehow. Down the troubleshooting list they finally got the to the xlr/rca switch, and flipped it back to xlr. Everything fine, except me feeling like a dumb*ss