Weak bass in one channel

[bulldog]

<font color='#000000'>Help!! am a bit new to the hi fi world and have recently purchased a cambridge audio 640a amp and AE evo 1 speakers and i have noticed that the right channel has much weaker bass than the left , i have swapped the speakers and checked the cables do i have a faulty amp or am i being over critical ?? thanks for any guidance!!</font>

 

[Rip Van Woofer]

<font color='#000000'>Is it still in the right channel even after swapping speakers? Is it with all CD's? Some recordings will have more bass in one channel than another.

If it stays on the right side regardless of whether you switch speakers and with all CD's and other sources, then I'd say it's an amp problem. But usually, if an amp is going bad in one channel the entire sound in that channel will be noticably weaker, not just the bass.

If you have a bass tone control, maybe it's shot? Or (not to be insulting because I've done dumber things, believe me!) maybe you have the bass tone control turned down on one channel if your amp has separate controls for each channel?

Generally, cables either pass the entire signal or nothing, though I think I've had an interconnect not plugged in all the way that still transmitted a weak signal but it's real noticable. More usually it's either no sound at all or it hums loudly.

All in all, I'm guessing that you've listened to a few recordings that probably just have much of the bass mixed in the left channel.</font>

 

[bulldog]

<font color='#000000'>i swapped the speakers and its definatly the right channel thats weak , changing CD's made no difference either , however after crossing the interconnect it moved it over to the left so i tried a different interconnect and still the same problem im now not sure whether its the amp or the cheap #### im using to connect the cd and amp any ideas?</font>

 

[Rip Van Woofer]

<font color='#000000'>Did you cross the interconnect only on one end (either the amp or CD player?) If so you only reversed the right and left channels. Try using a different interconnect. If one channel is still weak (and if you've eliminated the recordings as a culprit), it's the amp.

Sorry, just saw you already tried a different interconnect. Looks like it's the amp.</font>

 

[bulldog]

<font color='#000000'>Yeah only swapped the one end , i think your right looks like a trip back to the shop for a refund

thanks for your help</font>

 

[bulldog]

<font color='#000000'>Right after messing  around a bit more and trying a shed load of different CD's im beginning to think im just over critical seems i picked on a few recordings with the bass more in one channel than the other i also bought a atlas eqautor interconnect which seems to have helped , think i will just enjoy the sound im hearing as it was perfect before i started playing with controls! cheers</font>