I'm almost too embarrassed to ask, but.....


I would have never given this a thought but, I was recently watching the DVD concert, "Sting: Live from the Universal Amphitheater" and noticed that the trumpet was coming through the speaker on my left but, the trumpet player was standing to my right of the TV screen. Note that this is strictly two channel. I thought that perhaps my speaker wires needed to be switched on my amp. What I found was the right output on my amp corresponds to the speaker that sits to my right as I face the speakers. So my dumb question is, should the right channel speaker sit to the right as you face it, or to the right as you look from the speakers' perspective??? Call me crazy!
Hopefully, I'm not dense and the recording was not mixed properly.

Thanks again.

2chnlben
2chnlben

Showing 1 response by fatparrot

Not embarrassing at all! Technically, there is no reference standard for left and right! When dealing with a car, we refer to driver's side and passenger's side. In boating, channel markers that indicate right (starboard) are colored red, and left (port) are colored green and should be off of that respective side of the boat, when you are heading INBOUND. These two standards eliminate ANY confusion due to the observer's reference point. Kind of scary that surgeons still refer to body parts as left and right!