Nagraboy
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About a month ago when I got my Leak, I suspected my system had the channels the wrong way round. I switched the cables round at the back of my speakers and thought that solved it. Next day, I rechecked all the interconnects and speaker cables and it seemed I was wrong, so I reversed the channels again.
A few days ago, I thought I was sure the channels were the wrong way round so systemically checked every connection and found everything was correct - red to red, white to white. Still not convinced, I played Kind of Blue because I know 100% who’s supposed to be in which channel and found the channels were reversed despite all connections being ‘correct’. I checked and rechecked again and realised the only connection I’d not looked at was at the tonearm base…So this morning with help from my partner we lifted up the TD 124 from its plinth and after careful consultation with Google images and the SME manual I found that it too was connected correctly.
Just to make sure I wasn’t going mad, this morning I conducted a process of elimination. I used my Marantz CD player to rule out the Thorens and sure enough, the channels were still wrong. I then removed the external stereo/mono switch I use between Croft pre and Leak power, and the issue persisted. I then swapped the Leak for a Quad 303 and the channels are now playing correctly as I type this.
So it appears that the Leak is either wired-up internally with crossed channels (!) or that I’m missing something. As I said, I’ve eliminated all sources of channel switching and the source can only be the Leak. Does anyone know how this could’ve happened or am I going mad?
* Having just spoken to the previous owner, it seems possible that something happened when the RCA sockets were replaced. I’m going to contact the person who did the work and see how it goes.
A few days ago, I thought I was sure the channels were the wrong way round so systemically checked every connection and found everything was correct - red to red, white to white. Still not convinced, I played Kind of Blue because I know 100% who’s supposed to be in which channel and found the channels were reversed despite all connections being ‘correct’. I checked and rechecked again and realised the only connection I’d not looked at was at the tonearm base…So this morning with help from my partner we lifted up the TD 124 from its plinth and after careful consultation with Google images and the SME manual I found that it too was connected correctly.
Just to make sure I wasn’t going mad, this morning I conducted a process of elimination. I used my Marantz CD player to rule out the Thorens and sure enough, the channels were still wrong. I then removed the external stereo/mono switch I use between Croft pre and Leak power, and the issue persisted. I then swapped the Leak for a Quad 303 and the channels are now playing correctly as I type this.
So it appears that the Leak is either wired-up internally with crossed channels (!) or that I’m missing something. As I said, I’ve eliminated all sources of channel switching and the source can only be the Leak. Does anyone know how this could’ve happened or am I going mad?
* Having just spoken to the previous owner, it seems possible that something happened when the RCA sockets were replaced. I’m going to contact the person who did the work and see how it goes.