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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.
 

rvpiano

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holmz
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I live in the New York area (Long Island.)

The Johnny Rutan of AudioConnection in NJ is pretty well respected. 

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holmz
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OP. Start by evaluating your preamp by doing this.

Switch the input interconnects AND the output interconnects SIMULTANEOUSLY. Play some music. If the RIGHT channel is still not working then the problem is in your pre. If instead the LEFT channel is now not working then the problem is somewhere else. Best of luck.

Bruce

These two things, and ear buds, are what I use.

 

And an iPhone and this for injecting a signal into the chain.

 


 

 

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@rvpiano Yeah, she works with Cinnamon down at the jiggle-joint during off hours ...

That is a little misogynistic…

It could be “SHE” is just a apprentice tach, but it is also just as likely that is a good tech or a student, or whatever.
Women often need to be above par to work in a male dominated field.

I suppose it is OK to fantasise about a cute tech, but it is a bit purile, even for me.
Once should try and at least have a public face that is adult.
 

xcool I paid Jasmine’s company about $90.

 I gave her a tip of almost that much

^that^ was a kind and gentlemanly gesture @rvpiano 

 

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…

Maybe post who the company was, since they were competent?

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holmz
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Robin Hood, cool name for speaker cables! how do they sound while it was working?

@mastering92
It’s possible that they literally could sound like taking money from the rich?

Maybe not, but it seems possible…

 

@rvpiano had an opportunity to be ”in like Flynn”.

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Buddy, you need to first see if the dropped channel is from all sources. That means it’s most likely a cable between the amp and preamp, as someone else here has said. If not, I would pull everything apart and start over. When you put it back together, put identifying tags on all your cables. 

Otherwise, get a service guy from an audio store to help you. 


@unreceivedogma your dogma has been received and is in the queue.

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