What has happened to our speakers?

[clifffaith]

My new year's project is going through all the non-classical CDs and jettisoning those I don't care to have any more. The other day I noticed that the bedroom, living room and downstairs office speakers would occasionally fade lower and higher during the middle of songs. Cliff's office, the source of the music, was fine. Today whole songs don't play anywhere but in Cliff's office. And the dropped music is exactly when a song starts, all the speakers go silent except for Cliff's. New song starts, all speakers fire. Next song starts and all remote speakers drop off.

OK, so that's interesting. As I was typing this a double CD of 60's "girl groups" that was alternating, play one skip one, just ended. Now Celine Dion is playing multiple songs on all speakers. Would there be something about the original recordings being mono that would do this? Edith Piaf wouldn't play while I was downstairs yesterday to the point where I buzzed up to ask Cliff if he'd turned it off. Celine is now on track four with no issues.

 

[rapmarks]

Lol, thought you meant Pelosi

 

[DaveNV]

Faith, try playing only stereo CDs, and see if it sounds right. Then play only mono CDs, and see if the sound changes. It isn't likely the speakers, it's more likely the source audio.

Dave

 

[pedro47]

clifffaith, this happen to me over the Christmas Holidays . The right speaker would play,but the left speaker would not play. I have not played my CD player or stereo receiver since last Christmas 2018.

I disconnected the left speaker wires and it worked for one day. Maybe I need new wires from the speaker to receiver.

I turn receiver speaker knobs to the left for the left speaker to play "nothing".
Until I disconnected the wires from the left speaker to receiver. It worked only for one day.

 

[clifffaith]

It does appear to be the source material rather than the speakers. We have a 2-disc Petula Clark CD that is set up in chronological order -- disc 1 doesn't play at all through any auxiliary speaker. Disc two, except for 1 song, plays just fine. Seems anything not marked DDD has an issue. So I won't get rid of anything that doesn't play in the living room, because we won't have the same set up when we move to a retirement apartment. I'll just continue making a garage sale pile for things I no longer care to listen to (and slip discs I know Cliff won't give up if asked, because he can't turn loose of anything in spite of not remembering we own it, into the charity box). It's funny how much I can't identify by artist unless/until the track plays that probably caused me to buy it in the first place. Cliff listens to the classical cable channel 12-14 hours a day, so we rarely play CDs except when I want to listen to my Christmas stuff.