My speakers both sound equal with Radio, and Tape. When I listen to an Ipod on Line In. The right speaker sounds slightly lower, also meters reflect less power to right speaker than left on Line In. Radio, and Tape meter readings are equal. Anyone know if this is normal, or if not a fix. Thanks

Have you tried another source? An iPod being unbalanced wouldn't surprise me.

No i haven't tried any other source. I don't have one LOL. So Ipods can come out unbalanced like that? Thanks

Yes. I had a first generation Nano that was a little off balance to the left. With pure guesswork and in general I would suspect an iPod of being faulty long before I'd suspect a box. Add to that the idea that everything else seems to be working properly.

You don't have a tape deck, walkman, cd player, mp3 player, radio, or anything with a stereo headphone jack or rca jacks on it? Just about anything would work.

If an iPod was unbalanced then you would hear it through your headphones too.

Ur right +3. I just plugged in another box through the line in, and it's all balanced now!
It is the Ipod. I thought the line in was going bad. Not the case.
Thanks for the good advise.

Agreed, though we don't know how off balance it is other then "slightly".

I'm thinking meters could show a difference that you probably couldn't hear if the difference was only slight; especially if you're using less than stellar headphones or the awful buds that come with an iPod.

Of course I'm not saying for sure that the iPod is the problem as much as I'd point a finger at the iPod before any box. Why? Overall build quality and my own meandering experience.

Without something else to test with it's kinda hard to say.

You do have a very good point, though.

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Originally posted by Daniel Ruiz:
Ur right +3. I just plugged in another box through the line in, and it's all balanced now!
It is the Ipod. I thought the line in was going bad. Not the case.
Thanks for the good advise.

No problem. You're quite welcome. Very glad to hear that it's not you box.

i'm connecting the Line in cable right into my old 30gb iPod's "remote/radio" socket, couse the main headphone socket is broken and it plays only mono. If your iPod, Daniel, is compatible with those "remote/radios", maybe it could be easy way out without repairing that main socket?

I still don't see how common an iPod problem could possibly be. All my life I've never had any MP3 player or cellphone sound imbalanced through the headphones.

Personally I bet it's the box's fault, because in my experience the right channel is always the one that fades in old boomboxes. In fact it's the #1 problem most Ebay sellers don't mention (conveniently, I might add ).

You're right, but how do you explain the fact. When I plugged a box into the same line in, and played it. It sounds all equal. Even reflects it on the meters.