I just picked up a clean and minty Marantz 2252b and I've noticed that the balance control is behaving a little wonky. This issue shows up on both speakers and headphones and with any source.
Pan it all the way right, and you can still hear a faint buzz in the left channel (on any source). Pan it all the way left, and you can still hear the audio signal in the right channel, although very faint and heavily filtered. It seems like something within the circuit is definitely affecting the sound here.
The pot is also scratchy and needs to be cleaned, fwiw.
Could this just be an issue with the pot? Or a dying capacitor? Not sure where to start looking.
Pan it all the way right, and you can still hear a faint buzz in the left channel (on any source). Pan it all the way left, and you can still hear the audio signal in the right channel, although very faint and heavily filtered. It seems like something within the circuit is definitely affecting the sound here.
The pot is also scratchy and needs to be cleaned, fwiw.
Could this just be an issue with the pot? Or a dying capacitor? Not sure where to start looking.
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