On 11 Mar 2007 06:05:31 -0700, "andyjk70"
wrote:

HI, hope you'll indulge this newbie query.

I have a cambridge audio 540A and Sony SACD with Gale floor floor
standing speakers. For a while I've been convinced that one speaker/
channel - the right one - wasn't equal to the other - I cleaned out
all the connections, stripped back the cables again, even swapped the
speakers around, and still it sounds to my ears like one is weaker
than the other - am I imagining it? Or is there another explanation?
I've played around with the positioning and my listening position is
pretty much central.

Any comments appreciated,

Andy

Swap the two speaker connections at the amp - right for left. Is the
right still weaker? If so, the speaker is the problem, otherwise it is
something in the rest of the system - reverse other bits until you
find which swaps the fault.

Now, is it really weaker? Put the speakers face-to-face, as close as
you can get them. Reverse the phase of just one of the speakers does
the bass vanish? If so, the speakers really are equally loud, and you
have some asymmetry on the room.

d

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