Help!! 552 is dancing on one leg.

Posted by: Nan on 29 February 2004

I did a spring clean this morning...switching off and disconnect the system. On reconnection, the left chanel seems to be dead. If I turn the balance towards the dead chanel and increase the volume, you can hear music, but faintly.

Incidently, when I select mono on the pre it plays through both speakers, but in mono.

Any ideas.

Posted on: 29 February 2004 by garyi

Sounds like a source problem or source interconnect problem, not the 552. Unless of course its happening on all sources?

Posted on: 29 February 2004 by Nan

Thanks Garyi.

My only source is CD!

It was perfectly ok yesterday.

Nan

Posted on: 29 February 2004 by garyi

Do you have another ineterconnect you could use.

Also try a different input on the 552

Posted on: 29 February 2004 by garyi

My thinking might be buckled so working through it:

One channel of sound with channel bleed (normal)

Would indicate that one channel is not working at all when you switch to mono the sound comes from both speakers, this would imply that the pre amp is OK, just not recieving signal for one channel.

Its times like this you wish you had phono leads!

For certain change to a different input and change the interconnect between cd and amp. If you only have one check it very carefully for damage, stretching etc.

Posted on: 29 February 2004 by Nan

Your question got me thinking.

I just opened up the interconnect, and guess what...one of the wires is broken.

I quess you were right.

Thanks again.

Nan

Posted on: 29 February 2004 by garyi

No worries, look at it this way its a cheaper problem!