My iMac sound keeps resetting to come out of left or right speaker only. Why?

I have a new iMac 5k Retina. With this purchase I also started using some speakers through the headphone jack. I've noticed this annoying pattern that quite often the sound from the iMac keeps resetting to come out of the left speaker only or the right speaker. I keep having to reset it to balance them.
Is there a way to stop this?
Thanks.

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