Unclevanya
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I'm new here so if this isn't the right place for this let me know.
My daughter has a set of older gear that makes up her audio system. She has an older turntable, cd player, and a cable to connect her iPhone to the RCA input of her amplifier.
Her original receiver was fine for a long time then suddenly lost the right channel. The cheap 1980's era flea market replacement (tested supposedly) worked for a few days then it too lost the right channel! I then took my Luxman Lv105 out of storage, it hadn't been used in more than 10 years... And after a few hours, yes the right channel went out.
I know you are all thinking I'm crazy.
I tried a lot of different things including swapping the input channels and reversing which speaker connects to which channel, but it is always the right channel impacted. And even after that channel fails, switching things does not result in the left channel failing after weeks of listening to the one channel remaining.
The only thing I can think of is that these tired old units are dying randomly on the right channel. My daughter (in her 20's) thinks she's cursed.
Is there anything I should be doing to eliminate her voodoo concerns? Lol. In all seriousness I'm stumped and worried if I toss another amp her way it too will die!
Additionally any thoughts on simple tests to do to the failed units? I'm not skilled at electronics repair, but I'm handy and have used multimeters and Scopes casually in the past. I've used a soldering iron and gun, but I'm not very accomplished at it.
My daughter has a set of older gear that makes up her audio system. She has an older turntable, cd player, and a cable to connect her iPhone to the RCA input of her amplifier.
Her original receiver was fine for a long time then suddenly lost the right channel. The cheap 1980's era flea market replacement (tested supposedly) worked for a few days then it too lost the right channel! I then took my Luxman Lv105 out of storage, it hadn't been used in more than 10 years... And after a few hours, yes the right channel went out.
I know you are all thinking I'm crazy.
I tried a lot of different things including swapping the input channels and reversing which speaker connects to which channel, but it is always the right channel impacted. And even after that channel fails, switching things does not result in the left channel failing after weeks of listening to the one channel remaining.
The only thing I can think of is that these tired old units are dying randomly on the right channel. My daughter (in her 20's) thinks she's cursed.
Is there anything I should be doing to eliminate her voodoo concerns? Lol. In all seriousness I'm stumped and worried if I toss another amp her way it too will die!
Additionally any thoughts on simple tests to do to the failed units? I'm not skilled at electronics repair, but I'm handy and have used multimeters and Scopes casually in the past. I've used a soldering iron and gun, but I'm not very accomplished at it.