Help with imaging


Hope you guys can help me with an extremely annoying problem I'm having. I'm very happy with my Soliloquy 5.3s but seem to have a hard time with vocals or instruments that should be centered...they seem to want to exist to the right of center. I can somewhat correct this by toeing in the right speaker more than the left(I tend to toe speakers in toward the listening spot), but this seems more like a bandaid than a real fix and doesn't fully correct the problem. Moving the right speaker back doesn't seem to help either. Here's the wierd part. When I switch the speakers I still get the same result. I would have expected the center image to shift to the left, but it still skews to the right. I've recently had other speakers in my system and don't have this problem, so I don't think it's the electronics. Also, this happens regardless of what room the speakers are in, so it doesn't appear to be just a room thing, and I've tried different cables as well to no avail.

This is driving me nuts, so I hope you guys have some thoughts or insights and your help is GREATLY appreciated.

Tim
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Showing 2 responses by dekay

Hase you tried switching the left and right IC's back and forth? Other than the room the imbalance may come from the electronics or the cables (maybe just a poor or dirty connection if you are lucky). It looks like you have already rules out that it is the fault of the speakers. I recently had an off center image after playing around with a bunch of cabling, when a friend dropped by. I had originally though that I may have damaged a micro wire digital IC that I use, which is very fragile, but discovered after merely removing all of the cables, cleaning the contacts and reinstalling everything again, the sound was back to normal and I did nothing else. Hopefully you solution will be as easy.
PS: My center image was off even when I listened in the near field, so it was not a room problem.