Yamaha NS 1000M left right difference
Swap the left and right speaker just to make sure that your room is not causing some type of anomaly due to the speakers position in the room. This will also insure both of your ears are hearing things the same (or not the same if the anomaly follows the speaker). BTW, L-pads / potentiometers are notorious for having issues as they age. Have you tried cleaning them? |
sbenyo The Lpads are ceramic wire wound in these and are notorious for surface corrosion to build up on the winding's. I cleaned them all up listen and adjusted them to were I was happy, then measure the L and put 2 x 10w quality resistors in their place of the same resistances that they measured. And the sound was so much better without them in the path of the mids and highs. I did this on the NS1000M, NS1000X and NS2000 that I owned all sounded better with these L-pads taken out of the signal path and just two resistors in their place. Cheers George |
Thanks for the feedback. I did try to swap them. I am actually running now the other way from what I am used to and I still feel one sound a clearer than the other. I don't know how to test the L-Pads or clean them properly. The NS-1000M has a massive L-Pad and I am not sure I to get good cleaning inside. It can help if you can explain how is best to clean them. One thing that is strange to me is the both L-Pads on each speaker behave the same but different between the speakers. It might indicate something else is wrong which is not necessarily the L-Pads. I still think the first step is to rule out the L-Pads themselves. I can also try to switch L-Pads between speakers even though I first want to try things like cleaning without cutting/connecting wires if possible. |
