Visited a friend of mine who was waxing lyrical about how much better it is to have decent sounding music after using crappy litle external laptop speakers for years -- his was that Sansui amp I had such a drama fixing (back to front PSU caps, toasted panel micro-switches). It's a stereo amp, first generation 'surround sound' (simulated from stereo)
Was listening to it and thought - hmm, something is wrong. Sounds weird and bad. Poked around the speakers to make sure binding posts tight, etc... and then discovered he'd hooked up left speakers to red terminals, right speaker to other red terminals (i.e. left speaker to main right red and surround right red, left speaker to main left red and surround left red).
Hooked it up right and presto - proper sound. He was again amazed and delighted.
Turns out a PhD in environmental geography does not make audio electronics more intuitive. ;D
Was listening to it and thought - hmm, something is wrong. Sounds weird and bad. Poked around the speakers to make sure binding posts tight, etc... and then discovered he'd hooked up left speakers to red terminals, right speaker to other red terminals (i.e. left speaker to main right red and surround right red, left speaker to main left red and surround left red).
Hooked it up right and presto - proper sound. He was again amazed and delighted.
Turns out a PhD in environmental geography does not make audio electronics more intuitive. ;D
