Weird Channel Split ?
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Hi A very strange thing happened to me last night. Last night I was doing my normal late night coding , I have my HiFi(1200w) connected to my sound card(Old School SB 16bit) so I can blast my MP3's.The Hi-Fi is next to my PC box and the speaker's are onto on the box and next to my monitor For some reason I moved to the left and banged my foot on my desk. Now apart from the unbearable pain in my foot I noticed something different. My HiFI seemed to be playing only 1 Channel, in other word's all I could hear was the Rhythm guitar, I couldn't hear the bass, drums or Vocal's for that matter. It seemed to have perfectly isolated certain sections of the song Quite interested in this, I investigated further and played some different songs. To my amazement they all played in 1 channel. I have also discovered some weird stuff in some songs that I couldn't hear before.I can almost hear what Dave grohl is whispering in "Everlong" by Foo Fighters. I have checked all my physical cable connections and my sound card is working fine if I hook speakers directly to my SC. Something must have gone wrong in the external source of my Hi-Fi. Maybe it's MSVC++ lol :-D Does anyone know what could have caused this ?
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Hi A very strange thing happened to me last night. Last night I was doing my normal late night coding , I have my HiFi(1200w) connected to my sound card(Old School SB 16bit) so I can blast my MP3's.The Hi-Fi is next to my PC box and the speaker's are onto on the box and next to my monitor For some reason I moved to the left and banged my foot on my desk. Now apart from the unbearable pain in my foot I noticed something different. My HiFI seemed to be playing only 1 Channel, in other word's all I could hear was the Rhythm guitar, I couldn't hear the bass, drums or Vocal's for that matter. It seemed to have perfectly isolated certain sections of the song Quite interested in this, I investigated further and played some different songs. To my amazement they all played in 1 channel. I have also discovered some weird stuff in some songs that I couldn't hear before.I can almost hear what Dave grohl is whispering in "Everlong" by Foo Fighters. I have checked all my physical cable connections and my sound card is working fine if I hook speakers directly to my SC. Something must have gone wrong in the external source of my Hi-Fi. Maybe it's MSVC++ lol :-D Does anyone know what could have caused this ?
Are you sure you banged your foot, not your head? :-D
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Are you sure you banged your foot, not your head? :-D
Positive !
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Hi A very strange thing happened to me last night. Last night I was doing my normal late night coding , I have my HiFi(1200w) connected to my sound card(Old School SB 16bit) so I can blast my MP3's.The Hi-Fi is next to my PC box and the speaker's are onto on the box and next to my monitor For some reason I moved to the left and banged my foot on my desk. Now apart from the unbearable pain in my foot I noticed something different. My HiFI seemed to be playing only 1 Channel, in other word's all I could hear was the Rhythm guitar, I couldn't hear the bass, drums or Vocal's for that matter. It seemed to have perfectly isolated certain sections of the song Quite interested in this, I investigated further and played some different songs. To my amazement they all played in 1 channel. I have also discovered some weird stuff in some songs that I couldn't hear before.I can almost hear what Dave grohl is whispering in "Everlong" by Foo Fighters. I have checked all my physical cable connections and my sound card is working fine if I hook speakers directly to my SC. Something must have gone wrong in the external source of my Hi-Fi. Maybe it's MSVC++ lol :-D Does anyone know what could have caused this ?
nEgAtIvE cReEp wrote: Does anyone know what could have caused this ? Sure! There's an internal connection in the HiFi that's broken loose. I'd crack the case and start hunting, but not knowing what kind of electronics background you have, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this. If it's still under warrantee you could claim that it "just stopped working - I have no idea why!" and see if you can get an exchange. If you want to take a crack at it, plug in a signal source of about 100 mVac at the input of the missing channel (with the unit powered off) and start tracing the signal in from the jack with an oscilloscope until it disappears. That should reveal a broken wire or solder joint that is easily repaired. If you don't find any signal at all, there's a short to ground near the input; a very small signal indicates a short further up the line from the input. This assumes, of course, that you didn't whack it hard enough to actually damage a component inside - you may never find that... Nobody wants to read a diary by someone who has not seen the shadow of Bubba on the prison shower wall in front of them!
Paul Watson, on BLOGS and privacy - 1/16/2003