Something strange with imaging

Hi @yogiboy ,

I'll play around with it to see if it makes a difference.

It could be two simultaneous issues. One with a table/arm/cart/cable imbalance and another imbalance with hearing or acoustics. If it sounds balanced when you turn your back to the speakers but not when you face them, it’s not acoustics, it’s your ears. Got ear wax?

Dear @olp88 :  I told you that leave that way, it's spot on with reversed cables. Whay bother about, reversed cables does not makes any harm to what you are listening.

Now, what could be reversed could be the tonearm internal wires but again why bother about when you are listening fine with the reversed cables.

Is up to you.

R.

Yup could easily be the ears and solution maybe a pro ear cleaning.  Eliminate that possibility first.  I recently had a similar problem.   Sound was  suddenly unbalanced and highs distorted.  At first I thought my hifi was maybe snuffing it but a few simple tests established it was mostly my right ear.   Got the past due ear cleaning and voila, heaven once more. 

Dear @wlutke and @mapman and any other aspiring ENTs,

Not ear wax.  That was the first thing I checked!  All other sources including CD, streaming, and reel to reel have perfectly centered imaging through the same preamps. Any other ideas?