Ultimate stereo nightmare


I have a complex stereo system, having accumulated many various components through the years. I also have an impenetrable jumble of wires.  Until now I’ve been able to deal with problems that arose. Now that I am elderly I can’t easily get down on the floor to assess things. I bought and installed new very expensive speaker cables (Audioquest Robin Hood), and subsequently found that my right channel was not working. After switching cables, the right channel was still not working. So the problem is somewhere in the system.  I don’t know if it’s a loose cable or something else and have no way of tackling the jungle of wires to check it out. 
I hired a company that claims they deal with these things, but there’s such complexity I don’t know whether they can deal with it.
 

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Showing 4 responses by ghdprentice

OP, 
 

I get it. I really hate working on my home theater. But fortunately I had taken it apart years ago and labeled the interconnects.
 

Where do you live? There might be some not quite as old a codger nearby willing to help. For someone that understands audio… they will have enough familiarity to pretty quickly trace the problem. I live in Vancouver WA. 
 

 

Money usually works. Wish I could help… but we are clearly on opposite sides of the country.

OP,

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I find I am glad to be able to trade money for services (I am only 70, but, some things I no longer do, and am very appreciative of folks that can do it for me).