On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:

>KDE has separate left/right volumn control. I moved "right volumn"
>all the way to 150%, there was loud crack, and sound is now in stereo.
> I don't believe it. Thank you.

That "loud crack" sounds to me like an intermittent problem: I suspect your problem will reappear later.

This has been my experience as well. Indeed it could be a catalyst of the software issue. One stereo channel may have gone temporarily dead (or cracking) and the software might respond by disabling that channel (which is why the slider moved).

- Evan