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<blockquote data-quote="czickefoose" data-source="post: 8582712" data-attributes="member: 673312"><p>So I got the car back and was playing around with the RCAs. And now I'm more perplexed. I balanced to the front left. Playing music, I unplugged the front left from the head unit... no sound. Just like it should. Well, except for pumping bass from my manly subs of course. Plug it back in, sound. Just like it should. So far so good. With both rca in, I balance to the right, no change in sound, both speakers are at the same sound level. Uh, what? I balance to the right, all the way to the right, the left speaker is still playing at the same sound level as the right. See where the issue is? I unplug the right speaker and voila... no sound. I balance to the left, there is sound, like it should be. What is going on here? So, essentially, somewhere along the line, the head unit realizes there is two speakers, but when both rcas are hooked up, the thing gets all confused and plays both speakers as the same.</p><p></p><p>So I am now wondering, because this is a reconditioned head unit, could the issue be internal to the head unit? Like is it bad or something? Maybe something internal is making it not able to differentiate channels? It is a Pioneer 4100nex. There's no warranty at this point. Anyway, just wondering what you think if you had any thoughts about it at all.. Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="czickefoose, post: 8582712, member: 673312"] So I got the car back and was playing around with the RCAs. And now I'm more perplexed. I balanced to the front left. Playing music, I unplugged the front left from the head unit... no sound. Just like it should. Well, except for pumping bass from my manly subs of course. Plug it back in, sound. Just like it should. So far so good. With both rca in, I balance to the right, no change in sound, both speakers are at the same sound level. Uh, what? I balance to the right, all the way to the right, the left speaker is still playing at the same sound level as the right. See where the issue is? I unplug the right speaker and voila... no sound. I balance to the left, there is sound, like it should be. What is going on here? So, essentially, somewhere along the line, the head unit realizes there is two speakers, but when both rcas are hooked up, the thing gets all confused and plays both speakers as the same. So I am now wondering, because this is a reconditioned head unit, could the issue be internal to the head unit? Like is it bad or something? Maybe something internal is making it not able to differentiate channels? It is a Pioneer 4100nex. There's no warranty at this point. Anyway, just wondering what you think if you had any thoughts about it at all.. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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