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Explain this to me

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archcommus

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So I bought these super cheap Cyber Acoustic speakers for somebody. Plug them in, right one works, left one doesn't. I open up the left speaker and check all the internal connections and everything appears fine. So I assume it's just dead and I have to return them. Right before I'm about to pack them back up, I noticed the Windows sounds sounded rather...centralized...like normal. I get suspicious and check the left speaker and sure enough it works.

So these are brand new, don't work right out of the box, and then suddenly it's functional. For those of you with knowledge of speaker internals, any explanation? Should I expect it to die again soon?
 
I dunno, we opened up the left speaker and everything looked perfect internally. Unless it was hidden or the loose connection was in the right speaker.
 
Could be one channel of the plug that goes into the sound card had a little corrosion on it or otherwise wasn't making good contact. The cheapness of the connectors/cables used these days is incredible (I remember a good parallel printer cable costing $30. when the dollar was worth the paper it's printed on) - it's a wonder anything works at all. I keep a set of Caig Labs products in my kit for just such issues. Makes all connectors much more reliable. McMaster-Carr carries Caig stuff at decent prices

.bh.
 
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