On Monday, 28 January 2002 at 04:07:42 UTC, Jay Hennigan wrote:

On 27 Jan 2002 17:02:42 -0800, Mark Heiss <he...@snet.net> 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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