Having the strangest problem with an open-box purchase of Klipsch Promedia 2.1 speakers.
I very quickly noticed after plugging them in that though the quality of sound was good, something sounded strange, stereo effect was not there. If I changed my output balance all the way to the left or right, both speakers still had output, instead of only one output side. It appeared to me that each speaker was outputing an equal mix of the left and right channels, instead of the two channels separately.
I'm not good with technical speaker terms, but here's what I tested:
-One speaker wired to the back of the subwoofer red and black plugs at a time. Audio test from computer for left speaker sounded EXACTLY the same as the test for the right speaker. Would expect only one side to sound from the test, but both came out with the exact same output each time. This was the same for all combinations of left/right satellite, and left right red/black plug jacks.
- Normal headphone plugged into same soundcard jack to verify nothing was funky with soundcard, no problems, balance test worked there.
- Tried audio source from MP3 player plugged into Aux-in of control pod, same issue with sound balance output.
- Tried headphones plugged into headphone out of control pod, same issue.
One OTHER weird thing I noticed was that the D-in plug coming from the control pod was labelled "CENTER", which didn't seem right seeing as this is a 2.1 system with no center channel? Maybe I got a defect control pod/D-in wire, hence my channel problems?
Looking for a possible diagnosis for what is going wrong, could bad wires cause this, a bad amp, screwy D-in?