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"Making Mono" for checking Azimuth

I have a Hifi News test record for checking azimuth, but it requires minimization of a signal when listened in mono. My preamp (like many others) doesn't have a mono switch. Can I just take the output from my phono preamp, run it into a Y adaptor, and feed the output of the Y adaptor into one channel on my preamp, and just listen to that channel to minimize the signal? And further, could I reduce 2:1 with a Y adaptor and then expand 1:2 with another Y adaptor, thus creating 2 channel mono?

Or - is there another way to check azimuth that I should be considering?

Thanks, Peter
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Dougey Dougey Dougey. As always, your comments are always bang on. When I had the Tri, your emails helped me immensely.

May I make an observation?,..........thank you.

I have the Talea ll. On some records the sound is bang on. On others it is not. I now have sticky notes on which albums are this, and which albums are that.

Could it be that the cutting lathe, which did the master, was not perfectly lined up on some.

This hobby of ours is maddening.

I will say that half the fun of listening, is tweaking till it's perfect.

Your lucky you have Paul, all I have is red red wiiine.

Should I start saving for the Telos?.
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