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igenlodeWasted about half an hour plugging and unplugging things and looking for the manual, trying to find out why the stereo had dropped out of the record-player. I was able to disable the *other* speaker by loosening one of the twin plugs, but not to re-enable the 'dead' one (which was still giving out a ghost of sound) by means of firmly reseating both of its plugs at both ends of the cable.
The solution, as I discovered more or less by chance, was to reseat the turntable power supply, which with hindsight had clearly been yanked upon when I was vacuum-cleaning around the extension/surge protection lead hidden under the steps. Quite why the power supply lead should affect the right-hand stereo channel I have no idea; if it had been a 3.5mm stereo *output* plug that had been pulled halfway out then that would have been entirely comprehensible...
(I wonder just how long the second speaker had been out? I do remember that the same thing happened when I initially set things up after moving in, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that, after all my agonising about not being able to find the tiny counterweight to micro-adjust the needle arm, I was actually only getting mono sound -- a far more crude issue!)
The solution, as I discovered more or less by chance, was to reseat the turntable power supply, which with hindsight had clearly been yanked upon when I was vacuum-cleaning around the extension/surge protection lead hidden under the steps. Quite why the power supply lead should affect the right-hand stereo channel I have no idea; if it had been a 3.5mm stereo *output* plug that had been pulled halfway out then that would have been entirely comprehensible...
(I wonder just how long the second speaker had been out? I do remember that the same thing happened when I initially set things up after moving in, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that, after all my agonising about not being able to find the tiny counterweight to micro-adjust the needle arm, I was actually only getting mono sound -- a far more crude issue!)
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