Re: AMI K amp hookup question

On Monday, 28 January 2002 at 04:07:42 UTC, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2002 17:02:42 -0800, Mark Heiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> :Jay,
> :
> : Thanks for the info. Yery helpful. I will give it a try. I only
> :realized the phase difference recently from examining my friend's
> :Continental2. I always thought the amp on my K sounded weak until I
> :swapped one channel around.
> I would expect that it sounded very weak, and somewhat "weird", especially
> on stereo records. 
> :But up to this point even my stereo records played mono due to the way
> :the single set of cabinet speakers are wired.
> :
> : It is odd that a stereo jukebox would come equipped with only one
> :woofer/tweeter pair in the cabinet. The Continental2 is a better
> :design with the side mounted mid-range speakers.
> In those days a jukebox wasn't typically a standalone item like a 
> pinball or video game. They usually had at a minimum a remote volume
> and cancel switch and remote speakers, as well as wall boxes. Thus 
> wiring a pair of satellite speakers was probably the norm. These were
> the early days of stereo, with somewhat bizarre mix-down of records, like
> the vocals exclusively on one channel and instrumental on the other, etc.
> In addition, for a good stereo effect you really need better physical 
> separation of the speakers than you're likely to get in the width of 
> a jukebox cabinet. Side speakers like on the Continental 2 and the 
> DS-160 "ears" on the Seeburgs helped. But face it, from across the 
> room a Seeburg 222 might as well be mono in terms of sound. Stereo 
> was probably more of a marketing thing during that era than a reality 
> in terms of music. And I don't think that 45 singles were produced in
> stereo in the early days. 12-inch albums were, of course, but I think 
> it was a while before the record makers went to stereo on 45s due to 
> vertical compliance limitations of the typical 45-RPM player of the era.
> -- 
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