Please add balance control.

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Nico

Would be nice to see balance control added for room correction or when you suffer from hearing loss in one ear. A friend of mine for example has mild hearing loss in his right ear and he would love the same set up I have (Node+active speakers) but he needs balance control to even out the output of the speakers for his ears. I think balance control will be a welcome addition for many people.

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  • Official comment
    Bjørn Ulvik
    Hi-Res

    There is a balance control under the Audio Settings.  It has been there for a long time.  Maybe always.

    Balance trim was added to a few players April 26, 2022 (3.18.7)

    POWERNODE (N150), POWERNODE 2, POWERNODE 2i, POWERNODE 2v2 (with HDMI), POWERNODE (N330)
    NAD M10, M10 V2, C 700, CI 720, and CI 720 V2
    Bluesound Professional B160S

  • mr. charles

    There is a balance control under the Audio Settings.  It has been there for a long time.  Maybe always.

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  • Alain DW
    Lossless

    Can't find it in windows nor android controller.Only a tone control is possible, unless I'm missing something.

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  • Bjørn Ulvik
    Hi-Res

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  • Alain DW
    Lossless

    I see, I'm just a lowly user of an old Node2. I do my balancing on my amplifier, as it should be, I guess;)

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  • Nico

    There's no balance control on the Node N130. However, since balance control is present in the pre-amplifier stage of the Powernodes, and the Node can be used as a pre-amp, it should be easy to implement it.

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  • Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Nico

    As Alain suggested, balance should happen at the Amplifier end and not before.

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  • Nico
    • Edited

    Tony, have you ever seen a stereo power amp with balance control? I sure haven't. 

    Also, when you have an integrated amp with bass/treble/balance it often has a button marked direct, pure direct, line direct or something to that effect. When you engage that button all the processing in the pre-amp stage is bypassed. Even some stand alone pre-amps have bass/treble/balance control and a line direct feature to bypass it. It's always done in the pre-amp stage.

    If it's possible to add it to the Node, please consider it.

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  • Joergen

    I agree with Nico above, it would be great if a balance control was added. I am a relatively new user of blusound, I have a node x. I must say I was quite surprised that there was no balance control, coming from a sonos port which has it. I run a denon amp in pure direct mode, that bypasses bass/treble/balance control which increases the sound quality significantely in my system. And I would say most of us do not have a perfect listening room, so balance adjustment is kind of a basic function needed in my view.
    So is there any possibility and plans to include a balance control?

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  • Bill

    I go bluetooth or analog out directly to headphone:  so no balance for me?  I have severe loss of hearing in one ear

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  • Laurent Bonherbe

    There are many usage of balance, but again the main one is that most people now use their node, and even more the new node icon, with power amps directly that never have balance control. This should be very basic to implement, and frankly I don't understand why Bluesound keep on refusing it.

    Please listen to your customers and how they use your product...

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  • Laurens van de Weg

    Hi all,
    I have the same request.
    I also miss the balance knob.
    It would be great to have balance within Bluos.

    Best regards,
    Lau

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  • Alain DW
    Lossless

    I must agree. Some time ago my old faithful receiver, with balance control, blew its condensators and went to the eternal scrapyard in the heavens and I had to buy a new one. Of course the "good" amplifiers don't have a balance control any more these days since it seems to be bad practice to do that in an amplifier stage.

    Even if it is not a "pure" approach to treat an audio signal, in some instances it can be necessary. I think adding an intermediary pre-stage with balance control would also present a risk of degrading the signal.

    The option to select a balance control (on or off) would be a solution for many users but I think it may need dual DAC's and dual op-amp's to keep it clean. I notice many good and better DAP's work that way.

    That could be the reason Bluesound is no fan of introducing the function because the hardware has not been designed to support seperate channels for signal processing. 

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