Try another record...but it's quite obvious that its the fault of the record
LP: Left Channel Drops In and Out
I just experienced something I have never seen in almost 50 years of listening to LPs.
I was playing a vinyl copy of Bob James Grand Piano Canyon and side one played perfectly. However, when I put on side 2, music only came from the right speaker, even though I could hear surface noise in the left channel. I immediately panicked and thought something was wrong with my stereo, so I played part of side 1 again and it was perfect. So I played side 2 again and the first two tracks played only the right channel. When I played track 3 it started out with only the right channel, then part way though the left channel began fading in and out, finally outputting both channels normally for the remainder of the LP. I repeated this several times with the same results, so obviously it was the record.
Has anyone experienced this? Warner Brothers must have had some type of quality control problem--is it a probable pressing problem, or electronic problem in the mastering? Maybe some of these defective records slipped through before they caught them.
Anyway, I will pick up another copy and see if it has this same problem. Weird.
I was playing a vinyl copy of Bob James Grand Piano Canyon and side one played perfectly. However, when I put on side 2, music only came from the right speaker, even though I could hear surface noise in the left channel. I immediately panicked and thought something was wrong with my stereo, so I played part of side 1 again and it was perfect. So I played side 2 again and the first two tracks played only the right channel. When I played track 3 it started out with only the right channel, then part way though the left channel began fading in and out, finally outputting both channels normally for the remainder of the LP. I repeated this several times with the same results, so obviously it was the record.
Has anyone experienced this? Warner Brothers must have had some type of quality control problem--is it a probable pressing problem, or electronic problem in the mastering? Maybe some of these defective records slipped through before they caught them.
Anyway, I will pick up another copy and see if it has this same problem. Weird.