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I'm almost too embarrassed to ask, but.....

I would have never given this a thought but, I was recently watching the DVD concert, "Sting: Live from the Universal Amphitheater" and noticed that the trumpet was coming through the speaker on my left but, the trumpet player was standing to my right of the TV screen. Note that this is strictly two channel. I thought that perhaps my speaker wires needed to be switched on my amp. What I found was the right output on my amp corresponds to the speaker that sits to my right as I face the speakers. So my dumb question is, should the right channel speaker sit to the right as you face it, or to the right as you look from the speakers' perspective??? Call me crazy!
Hopefully, I'm not dense and the recording was not mixed properly.

Thanks again.

2chnlben
2chnlben
2chnlben OP
595 posts
 
Okay. I wish I hadn't asked that one! The more I think about it, the more I realize I knew the answer to my own dumb question (how many times has that happened?). I'm getting a little slower with age but, I'm sure I was sharp enough to hook the right and left channels up correctly, even though that was some time ago (haven't had a cable change in a while!)

Thanks.
kthomas
911 posts
 
Yeah, you would have noticed it a long time ago if you watch any movies at all if you had it wrong - nothing like a car driving from right to left to tell you if you have your speakers connected correctly.
slappy
903 posts
 
No such thing a sa dumb question buddy. Everyone has a brain fart from time to time and cannot figure something out.

Hell, before i had ever seen a Tube amp, it never crossed my mind that they glow.

hahahaha
lugnut
1,190 posts
 
Okay, now for the big addmission. I've got what, six or seven cartridge test LP's? Not a single one gets left and right channel to agree with my simple wiring which I know is correct. I eventually looked at a photograph of an orchestra and have hooked it up appropriately ever since. That means that my RCA's are reversed at the phono stage input. Every once in awhile I ponder this but leave well enough alone. I feel better now. What are the other eleven steps?
mdomnick
331 posts
 
The Phase Invert feature on many preamps was designed for what your hearing. The phase was backwards when recorded.
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