"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message
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"Mike S" nospam wrote in message
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The problem is a fault in the sending device, or the receiving device.


geoff

That narrows down the possibilities! At least he knows it's not the
cable (obviously)



Could someone please explain how it could be possible to lose one channel
of the digital stream out of the CD player, considering that the CD's
audio output is perfectly OK.

Yes. In the digital output the left and right channels are combined into
one digital stream, then sent over the coax cable to the receiver/preamp
where they arer separated into the two analog channels.
The problem here is in one of those stages. Either one of the channels is
being lost before it is encoded into that digital stream to be sent out of
the CD player, or a perfect digital stream is being sent to the preamp and
sometime after it is decoded into the two seperate channels, one channel is
lost due to a faulty component or a bad solder joint, loose connection, etc.