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When listening to Sirius, AM/FM, or CD there are no issues with audio quality.
However, when listening to devices through the MDI cable, I have the following issues:
1. The sound sometimes is missing midrange.
2. Sometimes the left and right channels get mixed up (left plays out the right speakers, and vice versa), and it does this DURING a song.
I complained to the dealer about my problem, and I even duplicated it for them, but they are stumped. We played a song, it flipped L/R to R/L on the fly... At one point, I replayed the first 10 seconds of the same song with two different iPods and it gave L/R, R/L mixups even at the beginning of track we played, and would switch at different time intervals every time.
We thought it was a bad MDI cable until I tested the Aux input and I got the same results with the L/R channels swapping sound, but the midrange is there in all it's glory.
How is it possible for the system to randomly swap left and right audio channels? As far as I know, it's only doing this on the MDI and Aux inputs, but I'll have to do some more tests and see if it can mix up on CD and SD.
Has anyone had this issue?
Is this a sign of a bad head unit or a bad amp? As I understand, the Fender system is only a 2 channel system (which is the minimum requirement for stereo sound) which is made by Panasonic, but tuned by Fender.
However, when listening to devices through the MDI cable, I have the following issues:
1. The sound sometimes is missing midrange.
2. Sometimes the left and right channels get mixed up (left plays out the right speakers, and vice versa), and it does this DURING a song.
I complained to the dealer about my problem, and I even duplicated it for them, but they are stumped. We played a song, it flipped L/R to R/L on the fly... At one point, I replayed the first 10 seconds of the same song with two different iPods and it gave L/R, R/L mixups even at the beginning of track we played, and would switch at different time intervals every time.
We thought it was a bad MDI cable until I tested the Aux input and I got the same results with the L/R channels swapping sound, but the midrange is there in all it's glory.
How is it possible for the system to randomly swap left and right audio channels? As far as I know, it's only doing this on the MDI and Aux inputs, but I'll have to do some more tests and see if it can mix up on CD and SD.
Has anyone had this issue?
Is this a sign of a bad head unit or a bad amp? As I understand, the Fender system is only a 2 channel system (which is the minimum requirement for stereo sound) which is made by Panasonic, but tuned by Fender.