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"Cars are Cars" by Paul Simon...are my channels reversed?

I could use some help from the Agon community. On the above track on the VINYL version of the album "Hearts and Bones", the lyric "drive on the left" comes out of my right-hand speaker and the lyric "drive on the right" comes out of my left-hand speaker. It appears I have all my connections perfect, including the cart connections. 

When I listen to this track on Spotify, the lyric "left" comes out of the left speaker and the lyric "right" comes out of the right speaker.

If you have this record, could you please listen to this track and let me know what you hear. Thanx very much.
lindisfarne
ianlane
11 posts
 
Hi 

I have an American pressing. On “Cars are Cars”the lines Drive ‘em on the left and Drive ‘em on the right appear in the Left and Right channels respectively. 
Hope this helps.

Ian
lindisfarne OP
511 posts
 
Thanx, all.
Ian, your post was particularly helpful. I'll now assume there's something amiss in my new rig and will get to work.
lewm
12,828 posts
 
I’d start at the cartridge pins, first of all.
lindisfarne OP
511 posts
 
Thanx, again, all, excepting millercarbon who, while witty, is unnecessarily  condescending, we have an answer. The Belles Aria integrated amp I just bought is wired with the channels reversed. Truly lame and quite disappointing. BAD QC. I don't expect this type of flaw from anything approaching its price-point.
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uberwaltz
13,381 posts
 
???
Then how could the Spotify version have played any different on the same rig?
If it's an internal amp wiring issue then ANYTHING and everything played through should have been reversed.
Unless you are saying it was just the phono input that was miswired internally?

What am I missing here?
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