From: sheila.chapman1@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, 28 January 2002 at 04:07:42 UTC, Jay Hennigan wrote:   
   > On 27 Jan 2002 17:02:42 -0800, Mark Heiss  wrote:   
   > :Jay,   
   > :   
   > : Thanks for the info. Yery helpful. I will give it a try. I only   
   > :realized the phase difference recently from examining my friend's   
   > :Continental2. I always thought the amp on my K sounded weak until I   
   > :swapped one channel around.   
   > I would expect that it sounded very weak, and somewhat "weird", especially   
   > on stereo records.   
   > :But up to this point even my stereo records played mono due to the way   
   > :the single set of cabinet speakers are wired.   
   > :   
   > : It is odd that a stereo jukebox would come equipped with only one   
   > :woofer/tweeter pair in the cabinet. The Continental2 is a better   
   > :design with the side mounted mid-range speakers.   
   > In those days a jukebox wasn't typically a standalone item like a   
   > pinball or video game. They usually had at a minimum a remote volume   
   > and cancel switch and remote speakers, as well as wall boxes. Thus   
   > wiring a pair of satellite speakers was probably the norm. These were   
   > the early days of stereo, with somewhat bizarre mix-down of records, like   
   > the vocals exclusively on one channel and instrumental on the other, etc.   
   > In addition, for a good stereo effect you really need better physical   
   > separation of the speakers than you're likely to get in the width of   
   > a jukebox cabinet. Side speakers like on the Continental 2 and the   
   > DS-160 "ears" on the Seeburgs helped. But face it, from across the   
   > room a Seeburg 222 might as well be mono in terms of sound. Stereo   
   > was probably more of a marketing thing during that era than a reality   
   > in terms of music. And I don't think that 45 singles were produced in   
   > stereo in the early days. 12-inch albums were, of course, but I think   
   > it was a while before the record makers went to stereo on 45s due to   
   > vertical compliance limitations of the typical 45-RPM player of the era.   
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