Headphone Output Stereo Sepration Problem

The different parts of your headphone jack carry the left, right, and ground signals

Unfortunately, some cheaper jacks (or sockets) aren't made the the correct spec. Proper right/left sound requires the metal part of the jack carrying the left signal contact only the metal part of the socket carrying the left signal, right to right, and ground to ground. If the jack doesn't go in far enough or goes in too far (or the socket is too shallow/deep), ground ends up contacting the right and shorting it out. The left signal gets put on both right and left chaels. Consequently, you hear the left chael on both sides

So try pulling the speaker jack out slightly, or shoving it as far in as you can. If you've got a headphone extension cable or splitter, you can try using that - sometimes you get lucky and the manufacturing tolerance is off on both by just the right amount to cancel out this flaw

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