Where's your balance

Posted by: Matthew T on 27 February 2001

Hope this hasn't been flooged to death in another thread but...
does anybody actually routinuely use there balance control and is it really necessary?

Matthew

Posted on: 27 February 2001 by Andrew L. Weekes

I only use it to ensure I've got the speakers / interconnects the right way around.

Never use it otherwise!

Andy.

Andrew L. Weekes
alweekes@audiophile.com

Posted on: 27 February 2001 by Mike Hanson

During intial setup and occasionally just to check, I'll flick the pre-amp into Mono mode, then ensure that the sound is balanced between the speakers. That's the primary use.

The secondary use is to isolate the various sonic elements when listening to the Beatles.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Posted on: 27 February 2001 by Phil Barry

I occasionally use it to compensate for a changing listening position.

Also, for many years, I got lower volume from the left speaker for some reason, so I sometimes compensated for that - but not always, since the balance changed with volume, and it was a PITA to keep the sound centered. BTW, the problem appeared to be in two successive tonearms.

Posted on: 27 February 2001 by bam

I don't use it. I don't know why it is designed in as it adds extra circuitry to the signal path.
BAM

Posted on: 27 February 2001 by Mike Sae

My right speaker is a fair bit closer to the corner then the left.

If I centre the balance, the bass booms from the right side; there just seems to be more "stuff" happening on that side.

I set the balance at 11 o'clock to compensate. I pretty sure it's not psychoacousitc.

Cheers,

Mike

Posted on: 02 March 2001 by Andrew L. Weekes

quote:
I don't know why it is designed in as it adds extra circuitry to the signal path.
BAM

With the exception of the 5 series!

Andy

Andrew L. Weekes
alweekes@audiophile.com