Unbalanced audio playback

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Hi,

I am more than likely going mad [] but I would like some advice on this.

Recently spent some money on mid range av/hi-fi system and I am hearing certain instruments only playing on my left hand speaker on a couple of my cd tracks and was wondering if this is a normal stereo effect with the way it was recorded?

Had cheepies before so I might not have been concentrating.

The speakers are also placed further apart (2M) than I am normally used to.

Only using the two fronts at the moment and system is set to stereo.

Just getting frustrated as I am not sure if this is normal or if there is something wrong with the system as I have double checked all the connections.

Receiver – Yamaha RXV1900

Source – Yamaha BDS1065

Speakers – B&W 684

Any thoughts

Regards,

Oliver

 

[the record spot]

Sounds like you're hearing the classic imaging that is otherwise known as stereo. Some recordings make more of the effect than others but I'd imagine your kit is fine.

 

[Anonymous]

A couple of things to try first: swap your speakers over only and check if the instruments still appear on the left (tests if the speakers are to blame - although everything would sound lop-sided if that were true)

- use the test tone on your Yamaha to check output levels

- listen to the same track via headphones on the yamaha

-listen to the track on a different piece of equipment

this should help narrow down the culprit or merely confirm the tracks are meant to be mixed that way.

Finally, I have lots of CDs which have instruments placed in the stereo mix which are definitely towards one side; it may be your new system is much more revealing (the speaker separation will accentuate).

P.S. perhaps you could name a track and a description of this and someone can verify.