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I'm almost too embarrassed to ask, but.....

I would have never given this a thought but, I was recently watching the DVD concert, "Sting: Live from the Universal Amphitheater" and noticed that the trumpet was coming through the speaker on my left but, the trumpet player was standing to my right of the TV screen. Note that this is strictly two channel. I thought that perhaps my speaker wires needed to be switched on my amp. What I found was the right output on my amp corresponds to the speaker that sits to my right as I face the speakers. So my dumb question is, should the right channel speaker sit to the right as you face it, or to the right as you look from the speakers' perspective??? Call me crazy!
Hopefully, I'm not dense and the recording was not mixed properly.

Thanks again.

2chnlben
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lugnut
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Okay, now for the big addmission. I've got what, six or seven cartridge test LP's? Not a single one gets left and right channel to agree with my simple wiring which I know is correct. I eventually looked at a photograph of an orchestra and have hooked it up appropriately ever since. That means that my RCA's are reversed at the phono stage input. Every once in awhile I ponder this but leave well enough alone. I feel better now. What are the other eleven steps?
lugnut
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I must be missing something here. My current preamp is phase inverting which require me to swap the connections at the speakers so the drivers move out when they are supposed to rather than be sucked in. (How's that for technical lingo?) That doesn't have anything to do with left and right being correct. Of course, your situation may be different with HT being a part of the package where I'm simply two channel. I've owned a preamp that had a reverse switch which changed channels left and right but I don't recall this being called phase inverting. Could somebody explain a little further? Or, do I already understand this correctly? Thanks.
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