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Old December 18th 17, 02:56 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Brian Gaff
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Default Two faults on the same channel?

Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and trace the fault on my right hand
channel old speaker wire that is for the other room. Having discovered a
spiky bit of wire shorting the wire several feet down at a junction block
inside a QED headphone socket and volume box, I thought it was solved, but
the sound, though it was there, was weak and crappy. Move along wire to
another QED box that switched speakers from a local sauce which worked to
the remote one which was grotty, I eventually traced it to a three position
rocker switch for the two inputs. Would you believe it, this beefy switch,
presumably originally made for mains use had gone intermittent on one
contact.?
After a lot of squirting of stuff and movement of the switch it seems to
be working again.
Why is it that often gremlins strike at the simplest of systems at the same
time? Its not been disturbed in maybe 10 years and has been working all that
time.
Brian

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