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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: sennheisers HD430
Message-ID: <3792@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 11:52:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 11:52:49 1985
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> I checked out some headphones yesterday - the whole
> sennheiser line.  I liked the HD420's but I loved the
> 430's so I decided to splurge.  One question though -
> how do you tell the right from the left side?
> My guess is by colors - red is right.  Is this right???

I have seen two different amplifiers whose headphone jacks were
wired opposite from each other.  Thus, the only sure way to
tell which channel is which is to use your balance control:
turn it all the way to the right, say, and remember the color
of the earpiece which is sounding.