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Why is my turntable only playing sound from one speaker?

If everything else is working on both speakers, the problem has to be somewhere at or before the input switch - jiggle it a bit and see if sound comes out from the phono, even momentarily. If so, a little contact cleaner sprayed into the switch may do the trick.Failing that, there’s a phono preamp circuit in your receiver (or maybe you’re using an external one if the receiver didn’t include one). Turn off the stereo and switch the R&L audio cables going into the receiver from the turntable. If the problem is now on the other side, you now know it’s not the phono preamp. If it stays on the same side, you may have a problem in the phono preamp circuit. Switch the cables back. If this is the case, it’d be cheaper to buy a new external phono preamp and use one of your spare line level (aka aux or tape) inputs to substitute for the faulty internal one (unless it’s under warranty).If you can easily access jacks where the cables attach to the rear or underside of the turntable, try the same “rotate-to-clean” and channel swap there.Now comes the delicate part, if these didn’t solve it. The thin wires in the tonearm have clips that attach to the phono cartridge, and sometimes a removable headshell as well. Inspect these connections for any oxidation, and burnish the headshell connections with a pencil eraser if you can. If you have fine needle-nose pliers, then try gently rotating or pulling off and pushing back on the little clips on the rear of the cartridge for a little friction cleaning (power off for all of this, BTW). Be very gentle since those wires can break easily.One last possibility is that some turntables have some metal contacts under the tonearm base that mute the signal from the cartridge during tonearm cycling (return from the end groove), and these can sometimes also get dirty or (less likely) bent where they don’t make contact.The phono cartridge MIGHT have a faulty coil or internal connection, but this is rare. If so, replacing the cartridge is your only option. Needle Doctor is a good place to find a replacement (but if you get the same one, save the original stylus as a spare, it’s almost certainly just fine).There’s a free website, Vinyl Engine The Home of the Turntable that offers user guides and service manuals for hundreds of turntable models, you might want to see if there’s a known manufacturing problem or common issue in their forums as well.After doing all this, you now qualify as an expert (if you worked carefully and paid attention)!

I plugged in a 110v device into a 220v plug, is it still useable?

Can you do it? Yes.Will the device be usable? Probably not.You might get a beautiful puff of smoke. Or a lovely fire.The other way round, 220V device into a 110V, will more likely just not function at all, but the electronics will not be damaged.The different plug types usually prevent you from even being able to plug the wrong plug into the wrong socket.Check on the back of the device - it might have 220/110V written , in which case it can happily be plugged into either source and function correctly. Most devices that are powered by a switch-mode power supply (SMPS) are flexible for both types (usually these are desktop computers, laptops, chargers, printers, screens, etc).Regardless, always check on the back label before sticking anything where it might not belong.

Do HDMI to RCA cables work?

Like every other question: it depends.HDMI is a purely digital signal, so there has to be an active signal converter to change from HDMI to the analog signalling for RCA. There’s a couple ways it won’t work.I’ll bet there are companies selling HDMI cables with RCA connectors soldered at one end. They’ll look nice and be cheap but won’t work at all.There are a number of companies selling HDMI to RCA converters that work great as long as the HDMI signal isn’t encrypted. However those are only useful for a small number of HDMI sources.There are HDMI to RCA converters that have the decryption built in. These will do what you want, but they probably have to embed the Macrovision copy protection into the analog signal (at least in the USA).There are also HDMI to RCA converters that decrypt the digital signal and put out a clean analog signal. These are probably mostly illegal in the US, Canada and Europe since they bypass any copy protection.

Audio Equipment: Is the loud popping sound when you plug/unplug your speakers bad for them?

Most speaker cones are driven from a power amplifier.. The pop - like you said -  is a transient spike. But the important thing here is that it gets amplified up through the pre-amp and into the power amp.. Speakers usually move in the ol' in-out fashion with respect the the voltage at the input.. and a big spike could loosen the cone from its suspension mechanism.. The higher the power and the more delicate the cone - the more the danger to the speakers ( what is normal for a woofer cone, could end blowing up a tweeter cone) . For e.g. In live events, where high output PA speakers are used, this is a very serious issue - because such a spike could throw the speaker cone out of its place, and it wouldn't work from that point on. For this reason, some high end audio equipment have a limiter at the output, that prevents signal from exceeding a certain predefined limit. So any occuring transients would never hit the cone at a level that is unhealthy to them.Most home audio equipment tends to operate at lower levels. That being said, there is still some damage inflicted on the speakers - just maybe not of the same magnitude.. especially the smaller ones.If your system has a remote control, it might be wise to hit a mute button just before you change to another input... or maybe find a way to turn off just the speakers (if separately powered) before you interchange the connection.Hope this wasn't too star warsy :)