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

Showing 1 response by johnweiss

I have a really stupid suggestion and I am not in any way making any type of comment on one's intelligence or technical capability.  I know a guy whose left channel went out on a brand new, not inexpensive, McIntosh setup.  He was kinda pissed and laid into the dealer who kept telling him this isn't possible.  My friend changed the cables from one channel to the other and confirmed the left one was not working. 

After a bunch of back and forth, the dealer paid a house call to see the problem for himself.  He took the remote, pushed buttons to get to the channel balance function, saw it was 100% over to the right channel, rebalanced for both channels and WOW!  music came out of both channels.   Kind of embarrassing, to my friend 😯

Have you checked your channel balance function?  May save you a house call cost 😏