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Strange listening situation

I have a McIntosh MC202 amp and a McIntosh C220 tube preamp with a built in headphone amp. Here's the strange thing that is happening. When playing this one song using both the amp and the preamp I cannot hear the vocals on the song. If I turn off the amp and use the built in headphone amp then the vocals come through loud ands clear. Could this be an issue with the tubes in the C220? It only happens on this one song. Any ideas?
jimmymac
czarivey
5,946 posts
 
Are you shure you're not trippin?
Retest sober please!
mafuta
10 posts
 
Vocals are usually panned dead centre in a stereo mix.That would mean that both left and right channels would carry identical signal for that vocal. If the two channels of your system is out of phase to each other the vocal will disappear. The signal is obviously still OK till it leaves the pre amp. Check your speaker wiring. If that is OK and you are running balanced connections check the pre to power interconnect cables. Also most Mac power amps has a switch for bridged mono operation. Check that that switch is set to stereo
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jimmymac OP
98 posts
 
Believe me, I know this sounds strange. Mafuta, thanks for the response. I will check those things.
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