American Beauty stereo channels.

November 18, 2014 2:29 PM

I've discovered that my stereo receiver and CD player headphone jacks reverse the right and left channels. When I listen to the Grateful Dead track "Box of Rain" through the headphone jack of my old Sony CD player, the lead vocals (Phil Lesh - he sings the very first line) are slightly to the right in the soundstage, while listening through the headphone jack of my receiver, it's reversed (slightly left). Anyone know which is actually correct?
posted by davebush to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Best answer: So uh... have you checked to make sure that the cd player is actually correctly connected to your receiver?

This wouldn't be hard to test, just get audacity, make a wav file with a 440hz tone in the left channel for 10 seconds then the right for 10 seconds, and burn it to a cd with something like cdburnerxp(or itunes).

Then you'll know for sure.
posted by emptythought at 2:33 PM on November 18, 2014 [3 favorites]

Response by poster: Yeah, I'm an idiot. Interconnects were reversed.
posted by davebush at 2:43 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]

Box of Rain is a beautiful song even with the tracks reversed. #LetPhilSing
posted by 724A at 5:21 PM on November 18, 2014 [3 favorites]

The Philzone was on the left..
posted by rudd135 at 6:42 PM on November 18, 2014 [1 favorite]