Left speaker suddenly stopped working.

The left speaker suddenly stopped working and I'm outside the US so RMA would be a pain. Anyway, rebooting, doing factory reset, and installing Windows to just test audio didn't seem to fix the problem. Audio only plays on the right speaker no matter what OS. Audio via 3.55mm/Bluetooth works fine.

This started happening after waking up the Steam Deck and all I get is a crackle from the right speaker. When I rebooted, there isn't any audio playing on the left speaker though the crackling on the right speaker appears to have gone away.

Does this mean the speaker itself is broken?

I already have the speaker replacement arriving next week. Just want to make sure I'm on the right path?

Thanks for your help.